LaToya Jordan

Do you dog-ear the pages of your books? Photographer Erica Baum sees dog-eared pages as more than placeholders.  In her new book, Dog Ear, she photographed dog-eared pages of mass-market paperbacks, presenting the pages in a new light, as text…

“Literature isn’t a 6-year-old dyslexic girl who has to be drilled on the difference between b’s and d’s and p’s and q’s. Literature isn’t weak. It’s strong. It isn’t given. It takes. It isn’t protected. It protects… And, finally, literature…

Not to be confused with the walk of shame: SlutWalks are a rising movement to draw attention to the culture of blaming the victim in sexual assault cases. The first SlutWalk took place in Toronto, organized after this public statement…

Take a look at the list of banned words at New York magazine under former editor Kurt Andersen. (via) The Rapture didn’t happen, but Maud Newton’s 40th birthday did. The Guardian has a new Flickr group for bookshelf porn. The…

File these two under “a freaky campaign to get adults to play with dolls”: Did you know that Barbie likes director David Lynch’s organic coffee? Or that your favorite doll could be turned into a wine glass?

Late last year, Gaby Dunn, a New York journalist and comedian, set out to interview 100 people in a year (deadline October 1, 2011) for her project titled “100 Interviews.” She created a list of people she “knew existed in…

“Captain America punching Hitler in the jaw is Captain America knocking him across the room with the weight of the culture. The X-Men going from multiracial to white to needing a white Messiah is the weight of the culture. The…