Simulation Dismantled: Beside Myself by DJ Haram
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The New Jersey-born, Philadelphia-based 'multidisciplinary propagandist'
weaves non-Western sounds into a potent critique of the West's exoticising
gaze...
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
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“School as a teacher is pretty different from school as a student,” said
Walden. “Better, honestly, in the way that being an adult is generally a
lot bette...
Review of Refugia by Elfie Shiosaki
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I had been writing on the nature of ‘invasion’ in a military sense when I
came to read Elfie Shiosaki’s remarkable new book of poetry, *Refugia*. Her
sch...
Jackson Lears: The Righteous Community
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Once the US became the world’s only superpower, universalist fantasies
proliferated. But after 9/11 they widened, intensified and solidified into
a new con...
Gaza: Revealing Israel’s Politics of the Will
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Trauma narratives are scarcely sufficient to explain the totality of
zionist desire for an annihilation beyond all revenge, for a genocide of
the Palestini...
June 29: The Globe Theater Burns to the Ground
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On this day in 1613, the original Globe Theater in London, built by
Shakespeare and his gang of thespians, burnt to the ground after a
special-effects cann...
Great Aunt Mavis and the Trees
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Mavis arrives after a decade’s absence, wild grey hair and weathered skin,
rust-speckled motorbike burping blue smoke. She hugs us, then lifts her
hands ...
BRAD BARRETT PRESENTS THE 1969 MALIBU AAAA
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At the end of 1967, the United States Surfing Association split into four
separate entities, one for the West Coast (Western Surfing Association, or
WSA), ...