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Caroline Kangas
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“Does the Vagina Have a Consciousness?” No.
Roxane Gay on Vagina: “It is also troubling that so much of womanhood is reduced to the vagina and it’s intersection with virile men. One of the many things feminism tries to work against is the objectification of the female…
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“The question is no longer should the way artists and educators operate change, but how?”
Full Stop has launched a new series, Teaching in the Margins, to highlight and explore arts education. They will be asking “novelists, poets, educators and academics about their views on the present state of the arts and humanities and the…
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Nudists do it better?
Carolyn Kellogg at LA Times Books asks: Is creativity better in the nude? “Could being unclothed help all artists make better art? There are people who live their lives as nudists, but as far as I know, no National Book…
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“The Cost of Being a Kid in a Classic Adventure Novel”
Brent Cox, writer of the column “Adjusted for Inflation” on The Awl, investigates the inflated cost of adventuring like some of our favorite young-adult heroes. The premise is this: “Let’s look at the adventures and misadventures found in classic kids…
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American Protest Music Today
Who can resist an alliterative and engaging title like “Pussy Riot, Paul Ryan, and Protest Music in 2012 America?” Corey Beasley riffs on the contradictions of protest music in the current American pop music scene, or lack thereof despite a political climate…
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#MuslimRage
Gawker responds to Newsweek‘s new cover article with “13 Powerful Images of Muslim Rage” as well as some “shocking” twitter posts that puts recent protests and sweeping generalizations in context. Brace yourself for more biting sarcasm than angry Muslims.
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“He hit Send”
The Millions discusses successful uses of technology in current fiction and those books that we must suspend disbelief for their plot lines to function. The article’s most eloquent insights, however, come from David Gates, in conversation with Jonathan Lethem in The…
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Making Sense of a Complex World
“For all its erudition and analysis, The Golden Bough has for more than a century helped cement the idea that magic is inappropriate, wrongheaded thought. Yet what separates magic from religion or science is not its methodology—Frazer himself notes that it ‘is…
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Breaking News: Poets don’t do it for the money
Charles Simic, a poet himself, tries to explain the method behind the madness for the frustrated folks who just don’t get the place of poets in a capitalist society: “To write a six-hundred-page novel takes years. You go and work…
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Open Access to Research is not the same as Napster for Music
There may soon be an end to borrowing the JSTOR password of your friends in grad school with the rise of Open Access peer-reviewed work, thanks to the Budapest Open Access Initiative: “Imagine a group of authors who do not…