In the series’ penultimate episode, Mad Men’s depressive hausfrau Betty Draper trips in a stairwell on the Fairfield University campus and discovers she’s dying. Lung…
Essays & Reviews
Less than a century after it began, the popular lexicon of the Holocaust has become threadbare. It is so reduced to a few suggestive and…
W hen we need updates about crucial utility maintenance, as David A. Banks does in The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America…
As political attacks on trans life have increased across the English-speaking world, sport has been a highly effective route through which the anti-trans right…
In October 2022, the far-right politician Giorgia Meloni became Italy’s first female prime minister. Her party, Fratelli d’Italia, campaigned under the same logo––a red, white…
A sensitive speaker of English could consider removing the phrase “rule of thumb” from their vocabulary. The term has its roots in domestic violence: a…
Youth is provisional. The stuff of market pictures, loans and auctioned prospects, finance and gentrification, enhancement and anxiety. Or else it is, away from the…
“The Egyptians have pyramids, the Chinese have the Great Wall, the British have immaculate lawns, the Germans have castles, the Dutch have canals, the Italians…
States depend on the consent of the governed: there are only a finite number of cops, and politicians, once stripped of authority and armed guards,…
A woman lies in bed in a large maternity ward. She’s just risen from a dream, and it overflows from sleep to tint her waking…