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Criss Cross Episode Three: George Shulman
A conversation with scholar and political theorist George Shulman about his teaching at Gallatin, the history of the School, and the ways in which speech and political theory are forms of storytelling.
Southern Sentiments
"When we don’t know the words to say how we feel, we turn to food to say it for us." Recipes from the Chinese diaspora in the U.S. South.
Unrooted: Dangerous Anonymity
On unnamed narrators in the fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri and Edwidge Danticat.
If It Wasn’t For Wayne, It Wouldn’t Be
An analytical look at the career and influence surrounding one of the most iconic names in music.
Perfect Earlobes
She puts on long, droopy earrings and stares back at me in the mirror. Try these, she says, and hands me a pair of danglies. You have perfect ears, she says. Look, she says. Perfect. Look at your earlobe.
Canh Khổ Qua
Vietnam, 1953: the last of the rain/ has settled. a rainbow/ begins to form as i/ go out to grab some/ groceries. the produce/ man smiles and waves/ as i head home./ metal against wood./ burning embers./ boiling broth./ and ...
The Antihero, as Seen on Reality TV
Like the Greek tragedy of its time, The Bachelor is one of the best modern portrayals of the human condition.