Open Court's The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy Emphasizes Caution and Awareness
As far as The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy is concerned, Trump et al are the exact bastards you're not supposed to let grind you down.
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Quinlan Miller's 'Camp TV' Could Use Some Levity
Under the aegis of fluidity, Quinlan Miller advances a trans-conscious viewpoint in Camp TV that happily takes a pick-ax to more basic gender studies approaches to pop media.
19 March
Doctor Strange and the Racial History of a Marvel Icon
The Asian legacy of Doctor Strange is more complex than you know.
19 March
A Journalist Interrogates the Liberal Aversion to Violence in 'Being Numerous'
Punching Nazis, Natasha Lennard contends, is merely the natural edge of a spectrum which also includes controlling our own tendencies toward fascist acts in everyday life.
18 March
Action Bronson Cooks with the Ultimate Herb in 'Stoned Beyond Belief'
If you're in to Action Bronson's raucous persona and gastrointestinal indulgences, Stoned Beyond Belief will not disappoint.
18 March
Motherhood and Soviet Life in Nora Ikstena's Latvian Novel, 'Soviet Milk'
Nora Ikstena's autofictional history, Soviet Milk, exposes the violence of the Soviet institutionalization of motherhood as a civic duty that was incorporated into the ideological and social structure of Soviet life.
15 March
Small Books for Big Brains: Red Circle Minis' Pocket-sized Japanese Fiction
Why must I tote around a book the size of a '90s-era laptop computer, carried in a bag slung over aching shoulders and twisted back, while my friends in Japan can enjoy the same book slipped near weightlessly into their pants pocket?
15 March
Short Stories: Animals, Part II
The selected stories this month have a touch or more of surrealism and their writers — Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Sarah Hall, Robert Olen Butler, Beth Goder, and Jackie Kay — explore the humanity of our species and our relationships with other living species.
13 March
'Sleeping with Strangers' May Be More Prurient Than Its Hollywood Subjects
In an apparent attempt to generate understanding and contextuality in film history, David Thomson only ends up perpetuating myths and stigmas against homosexuals in his latest, Sleeping with Strangers.
12 March
'The Barefoot Woman' and Writing Against Genocide
As political partisanship grows more fierce let us realize what happens when such bluster and rage escape the realm of the abstract. Scholastique Mukasonga's The Barefoot Woman is a thoughtful tribute to her mother, who was murdered in the Rwandan genocide.
11 March
Sarah Banet-Weiser Takes on Institutionalized Misogyny in 'Empowered'
Empowered centralizes popular feminism's ability to expose an injurious site where dominant masculinity is fallible.
08 March
'The Story Prize: Fifteen Years of Great Short Fiction'
Shape, time, and beautiful vision from some of the best short story collections of the 21st century are collected in The Story Prize: Fifteen Years of Great Short Fiction.
07 March
Inspiring Empathy by Removing the Abstraction: Tey Meadow's 'Trans Kids'
With Trans Kids, Tey Meadow educates readers and gives them hope for societies that are just now learning to address gender beyond the strictures of presumed binary biology.
05 March
Pussycats, Lesbian Vampires, and the Blood-Splattered Erotica of Emily Carroll's 'When I Arrived at the Castle'
There's a lot of yarn for this cat to untangle in Emily Carroll's When I Arrived at the Castle.
04 March
How Male Dominance in French Grammar Affects Julie Delporte's 'This Woman's Work'
Julie Delporte's graphic memoir, This Woman's Work, documents her private and professional search for her place in a male-dominated field and world.
01 March
'All the Lives We Ever Lived' Finds Comfort in Mourning with Virginia Woolf
These days, when personal grief becomes a public performance on social media, it's heartening to have a book such as Katharine Smyth's All the Lives We Ever Lived, wherein deep introspection is given space and literature provides both solace and inspiration.
28 February
'The Song Is You' Is the Sinatra Biography That’s Not a Biography
The revised and expanded version of Will Friedwald's acclaimed Sinatra book, The Song Is You, is about the music and nothing but the music.
27 February
Should America Negotiate with Terrorists? An Interview with Joel Simon
Joel Simon, Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, discusses his new book, We Want to Negotiate, which argues for sweeping changes to the way the US responds to hostage-taking.
26 February
Learn from Your Female Elders: Read Feminism's Forgotten Fight
When progressives adopt an ahistorical critique of feminism, they risking aiding and abetting its subversion. Historian Kirsten Swinth offers a remedy with Feminism's Forgotten Fight.
25 February
"Star Fucking Trek?" and More About VR and the 'Dawn of the New Everything'
Computer philosopher and scientist, visual artist and composer Jaron Lanier goes gleefully (but mindfully) "schizophrenic" in Dawn of the New Everything.
25 February
Timuel Black Tells His Remarkable South Side Chicago Story in 'Sacred Ground'
The esteemed oral historian, Timuel Black, turns the microphone around to capture his amazing journey through 20th Century black America in Sacred Ground.
22 February
Jessica Hopper's 'Night Moves': Prose Poetry for the Punk Rock Masses
Jessica Hopper's Night Moves is a dozen thorny roses for the city that keeps blowing its windy-ness beneath her darkly comic wings.
22 February
'Shape of Light' Shines in the Space Where Photographic Art Bleeds into Wider Art
There's a wealth of work on display in Shape of Light, from the Tate Modern's exhibit, perhaps one of the finest general collections of abstract photographs currently available in print form.
21 February
'Half a Million Strong' Studies the Intersection of Crowds and Power at Rock Festivals
Gina Arnold's research into rock festivals in the US, Half a Million Strong, reveals that it's about the music, yes, but it's also very much about you.
20 February
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