Reflections on Greatness

Jun 14, 2024

Edward W. Said: An Unpublished Letter to...

May 29, 2024

MODEST ADVICE FOR UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRAT...

May 6, 2024

AI: A view from the corporate trenches

Apr 5, 2024

The AI Alibi

Mar 30, 2024

On the Concept of Corrosive Irony with C...

Feb 11, 2024

Presentation Copy

Jan 23, 2024

Anatomizing the Fall

Dec 30, 2023

The Radio DJ is a Storyteller: Sonic Rep...

Dec 8, 2023

Return

Dec 7, 2023

The Hard Hat Riot of May 1970: A Slice o...

Nov 30, 2023

Melissa Broder in Death Valley

Nov 19, 2023

Something or Nothing at All

Nov 19, 2023

“Love Is Blind” Beyond the E...

Sep 26, 2023

Julius Nyerere Translates “Julius ...

Sep 22, 2023

To Be Real! “Barbie” as a &#...

Jul 31, 2023

THE MAR-A-LAGO AIR

Jun 27, 2023

What Genre is “Succession”?

Jun 6, 2023

News from the Staten Island Ferry

May 26, 2023

Trump’s “Town Hall” A Counternarrative...

May 13, 2023

On “BreadTube:” Can YouTube Video Essays...

Apr 29, 2023

Three Ukraine War Poems

Mar 17, 2023

Please Answer Now

Feb 2, 2023

The Good Samaritan

Jan 29, 2023

McCarthys Rule!

Jan 27, 2023

Darwin 348

Dec 19, 2022

That Day

Nov 19, 2022

My Dive

Nov 18, 2022

Despite Everything

Nov 13, 2022

In Solidarity with Urooj Rahman and Coli...

Nov 11, 2022

APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA

Oct 22, 2022

BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLICANS

Oct 13, 2022

POLITICS FOR A JOYCEAN CENTENNIAL

Aug 29, 2022

The Girl Who Made It Snow in Singapore

Aug 12, 2022

TRIUMPH OF THE FOSSILS

Jul 7, 2022

Ian Watt Memorizes “The Divine Com...

Jun 16, 2022

Paul Celan and Ukraine

Jun 7, 2022

Clouds Over the Cone

May 26, 2022

Road Umbrage

May 19, 2022

Tombstone to Tutti Frutti: Where’s Your ...

Mar 2, 2022

Throw a Tampon at Your Dad: “The W...

Feb 23, 2022

Lauren Greenfield: Between Critique and ...

Jan 20, 2022

Maid in America: Whiteness as Property

Jan 18, 2022

Drones

Dec 30, 2021

east berlin, in retrospect

Dec 25, 2021

A Christmas Prayer

Dec 25, 2021

Trump’s Chumps

Oct 10, 2021

Epigraphy

Sep 12, 2021

To Nicole, my Cat

Sep 11, 2021

Why Were We in Afghanistan? (Don’t Demon...

Aug 26, 2021

After Post-Colonialism and Globalization...

Aug 19, 2021

Stanley Aronowitz and Cultural Studies

Aug 18, 2021

Stuart Hall and Marxism

Jul 5, 2021

SYRIZA in Power: Precepts of Governing a...

Jun 15, 2021

Who Is My Neighbor?

Jun 9, 2021

Congratulations

Jun 7, 2021

Disordered Attachments: On Literary Crit...

May 31, 2021

Opt Out

May 26, 2021

The Messenger from Heaven

May 15, 2021

Water, the driving force of Nature, and ...

May 2, 2021

Promising Young Country (warning: spoile...

Apr 22, 2021

After

Apr 21, 2021

Fire Weather

Apr 18, 2021

Trust Me: A Visit from Bob Woodward

Apr 12, 2021

Deaths of Documentary

Apr 2, 2021

Life on the Delaware; or, Comings and Go...

Apr 1, 2021

New Day for Podemos?

Mar 28, 2021

Water Wars Part 2

Mar 25, 2021

Water Wars: a Podcast with Tom Kruse

Mar 24, 2021

Think from the Viewpoint of Water

Mar 21, 2021

Why a UBI?

Mar 19, 2021

Consciousness

Mar 17, 2021

Walks on the Boundary Line (Waterways)

Mar 13, 2021

Tunnel (Waterways)

Mar 7, 2021

River (Waterways)

Mar 7, 2021

Where You Still Need a Dashboard Radio

Mar 7, 2021

Old Veteran Cypress (Waterways)

Mar 6, 2021

The River Owns Itself (Waterways)

Mar 3, 2021

La Veille de Noël

Feb 14, 2021

Sensible Woman Speaks

Feb 7, 2021

What I Can’t Do

Feb 7, 2021

A Thin Dark String

Feb 5, 2021

NOAM CHOMSKY SAYS, FIGHT FOR THE REVOLUT...

Feb 5, 2021

Ending with O

Feb 2, 2021

Hook-Up Poems: An Invitation to Poets

Jan 30, 2021

Hegel, Recognition, and “Grievance...

Jan 18, 2021

The 60’s as Founding: On David Bro...

Jan 13, 2021

Weimar Moment?

Jan 11, 2021

The Time It Will Take: Building Left Soc...

Jan 9, 2021

Put Your Yard Signs Out Again

Jan 5, 2021

Under Conditions Not of Our Choosing

Jan 3, 2021

Exhaustion

Dec 27, 2020

Nothing Sadder Than Cold Grits

Dec 16, 2020

Ain’t Called Jacobin for Nothin...

Dec 7, 2020

a horticultural goodbye

Dec 1, 2020

This Prisoner

Nov 27, 2020

What It’s Like

Nov 27, 2020

Two Poems from Breakup Canyon

Nov 26, 2020

Gallery

Nov 24, 2020

Driving By

Nov 23, 2020

Vicious

Nov 23, 2020

police story: a fragment

Nov 20, 2020

divorce done right

Nov 19, 2020

Trending Whiteness: Countrypop Aesthetic...

Nov 17, 2020

A Self-Described Geezer Reflects on Cons...

Nov 6, 2020

Exquisite Corpse

Nov 2, 2020

Tuwei cyber culture in China: the rural ...

Sep 19, 2020

Waiting for John Kelly?

Sep 5, 2020

Have You Ever Loved a Black Man?

Aug 24, 2020

The Autumn of Our Discontent

Jul 28, 2020

News from St. Louis

Jul 21, 2020

Aesthetics in the Discipline of Literary...

Jul 18, 2020

RUSSIAN BOUNTY

Jul 1, 2020

Dispatch from the NYC Protests

Jun 13, 2020

George Floyd’s Funeral Train

Jun 10, 2020

Social Democracy in One Country? Spain’s...

Jun 6, 2020

The Talking Dead: Jia Tolentino and the ...

Jun 1, 2020

America Apologizes

May 22, 2020

Plague Diary, May 3

May 13, 2020

STAYING ALIVE IN PUERTO RICO

May 11, 2020

In Gratitude

May 8, 2020

If Coffee Shop Could Open

May 6, 2020

Quarantine Etymology

May 5, 2020

A HITHERTO UNKNOWN DRAFT OF The Waste La...

May 4, 2020

Spitballing in a Pandemic

Apr 25, 2020

Plague Diaries, April 11

Apr 24, 2020

The Locked Down Watching the Locked Up

Apr 11, 2020

Escape from New Jersey

Apr 4, 2020

Plague Chronicle, continued

Apr 3, 2020

Plague Cartoons, continued

Mar 27, 2020

Miraculous Discovery

Mar 25, 2020

Donald Trump, Wartime President

Mar 25, 2020

Pages from a COVID Diary

Mar 21, 2020

Taking the Last Flight Out in Times of L...

Mar 18, 2020

In the streets a serenade

Mar 14, 2020

Keeping Ourselves Honest, Treating Frien...

Feb 17, 2020

What Was Decolonization? A Review of Ado...

Feb 13, 2020

Staying Beside; Moving Sideways: Hans De...

Feb 3, 2020

The Ocean Doesn’t Care

Jan 11, 2020

Who Would You Be?

Jan 3, 2020

Breathing Room: Dingell v Trump

Dec 21, 2019

Telling “the widest story”: A Review of ...

Dec 19, 2019

Killing Times: Theory and the Abolition ...

Dec 11, 2019

Woodstock, Altamont, and the Sixties

Dec 6, 2019

POETIC RESISTANCES

Nov 27, 2019

NO DANCING IN THE STREETS: Spain’s...

Nov 16, 2019

Traveling Underpants: On May Hawas’...

Nov 14, 2019

Capitalist Realism, Ten Years On

Nov 4, 2019

OPEN BORDERS?

Oct 25, 2019

Afro-Pessimism and the (Un)Logic of Anti...

Oct 8, 2019

Explaining Evangelicals’ Support for Tru...

Sep 23, 2019

“Unbelievable”– Scenes...

Sep 21, 2019

GOING AFTER THEORY

Aug 24, 2019

Funny Careers: “A Star Is BornR...

Aug 21, 2019

Something Darker than Farce: the Spanish...

Aug 13, 2019

Jeffrey Epstein and the Death Rattle of ...

Aug 12, 2019

HORROR AND DIAGNOSIS: ON ARI ASTER

Jul 30, 2019

ARE WE BEING CLASSY YET?

Jul 27, 2019

MUELLER, THEY WROTE

Jul 25, 2019

After Wounded Knee

Jul 23, 2019

Why Pay Attention to the So-Called Scien...

Jul 2, 2019

“Another Story in The Overstory: One of ...

Jun 29, 2019

Thackeray Meets Dark Matter:The Making o...

May 7, 2019

Parking Lot in the Memorial Forest by Di...

Apr 23, 2019

Why is this Night Different? The Problem...

Apr 17, 2019

“The Birds, and the Stars, and the...

Apr 11, 2019

Witches Who Work: Female Patriarchal Car...

Apr 4, 2019

Trump’s Triangle

Mar 30, 2019

Theatre Feast and Theatre Famine: On ...

Mar 13, 2019

Winternet is Coming

Mar 8, 2019

The Real Problem the SNC Lavalin Affair ...

Mar 7, 2019

The Zionist Problem: Divided Loyalties i...

Mar 7, 2019

Bob Mould — Sunshine Rock

Mar 5, 2019

A New Story by Harry Whomersley

Mar 2, 2019

John Hay on Bob Dylan: Untangling the Tr...

Feb 25, 2019

Film Review: If Beale Street Could Talk

Feb 24, 2019

Film Review: Vice

Feb 24, 2019

Interesting Times

Feb 21, 2019

Border Walls and Alien Homelands: Reflec...

Feb 16, 2019

Entering Sadr City on Report of Troops i...

Feb 14, 2019

On Atonement

Feb 13, 2019

Hatred Blanks and Rusty Blinks by Adrien...

Feb 7, 2019

Steve Mason — About the Light

Feb 6, 2019

On Writing Good Sentences

Feb 5, 2019

Eduardo Pavez Looks Askance at “Ro...

Jan 28, 2019

David Brooks, Meet Josiah Royce, Part I

Jan 27, 2019

Ben Streeter Sees the Neoliberalism in H...

Jan 23, 2019

Film Review: Roma

Jan 22, 2019

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Jan 18, 2019

The Dogs — Before Brutality

Jan 16, 2019

Electoral Architecture

Jan 15, 2019

Red Rum Club — Matador

Jan 14, 2019

How Fascism Works: A Reply To Peter Ludl...

Jan 10, 2019

Criticism and Theory: 22 Theses

Jan 8, 2019

My Neighbors

Jan 7, 2019

Film Review: The Old Man and the Gun

Jan 3, 2019

Louis CK is Still a Jackass

Jan 2, 2019

Film Review: The Ballad of Buster Scrugg...

Dec 27, 2018

It’s [Not] a Wonderful Life: How C...

Dec 26, 2018

Eugene to Berkeley and The Last Bus on t...

Dec 21, 2018

Film Review: Mary, Queen of Scots

Dec 21, 2018

The Date Rape Song

Dec 19, 2018

Film Review: The Favourite

Dec 18, 2018

Mermaids Want Shoes

Dec 3, 2018

The Median, Triggered, and First Day by ...

Nov 30, 2018

The Barn and Backseat by Larry D. Thacke...

Nov 21, 2018

Film Review: The Wife

Nov 21, 2018

Makaya McCraven — Universal Beings

Nov 7, 2018

St. Mawr

Nov 6, 2018

American Pogrom

Nov 5, 2018

Night Drive by Brian Barnett

Nov 2, 2018

Film Review: Colette

Oct 31, 2018

Jews and Whiteness

Oct 30, 2018

Film Review: The Sisters Brothers

Oct 26, 2018

Three Poems by Alyssa Harmon

Oct 19, 2018

Lost and Found by Yi-Wen Huang

Oct 11, 2018

The Good Fight

Oct 9, 2018

Lynn White’s Roundabout and ItR...

Oct 4, 2018

Renovating the House (and Senate…)

Oct 1, 2018

The Peelers: Cúnla

Sep 28, 2018

Alphabet of the Tracks by Charles Bernst...

Sep 27, 2018

Fun World, View From Above, A Dissipatin...

Sep 25, 2018

Return of “Car Poems” &...

Sep 7, 2018

The Victory of the Village Voice

Sep 4, 2018

When the Predator is a Lady

Aug 29, 2018

The Germans Come Back to Psari

Aug 28, 2018

No Substitute for Professional Boundarie...

Aug 22, 2018

Art of #MeToo: Cara Cole’s “...

Aug 3, 2018

The Kant Thing: McCann’s Answer

Jul 26, 2018

Palestine and “Progressive” Politics

Jul 23, 2018

Fortuna in Finland

Jul 20, 2018

Giacometti at the Guggenheim

Jul 12, 2018

Form and Class: a response to Sean McCan...

Jul 1, 2018

Car Poems for Robert Kroetsch – Pa...

Jun 29, 2018

“So you love her hair…”...

Jun 27, 2018

Car Poems for Robert Kroetsch – Pa...

Jun 21, 2018

Car Poems for Robert Kroetsch – Pa...

Jun 21, 2018

Car Poems for Robert Kroetsch – Pa...

Jun 21, 2018

Car Poems for Robert Kroetsch – Pa...

Jun 21, 2018

Black Thought : Streams of Thought, Vol....

Jun 18, 2018

The Return of The The

Jun 15, 2018

Wend and Calque by Lea Graham

Jun 15, 2018

Merci Beaucoup and Thank You

Jun 14, 2018

Wooden Shjips — V.

Jun 13, 2018

Doug Ford: Ontario’s Populist

Jun 11, 2018

Ray Lamontagne — Part of the Light

Jun 11, 2018

Dr. Peterson’s Patent Snake Oil: N...

Jun 9, 2018

On Burning by Sharon Dornberg-Lee

Jun 8, 2018

Confessions of a Race Traitor

Jun 6, 2018

Literary Academia: Simon During Reflects...

May 31, 2018

Literary Academia: Simon During Reflects...

May 31, 2018

Matthew Barlow wins prestigious book pri...

May 30, 2018

The Passion of Philip Roth

May 29, 2018

Glendette by Brent Raycroft

May 24, 2018

Sestina On Doing One Hundred And Forty O...

May 17, 2018

Venetian Snares/Daniel Lanois: Venetian ...

May 16, 2018

Czarface & MF DOOM: Czarface Meets ...

May 14, 2018

Custom Car Parade by Laura Winton

May 10, 2018

Speedy Ortiz: Twerp Verse

May 9, 2018

A Place to Bury Strangers: Pinned (Brain...

May 7, 2018

Jean Grae/Quelle Chris: Everything’...

May 2, 2018

Reports from the Picket Line: A Rousing ...

May 1, 2018

Reports from the Picket Line: Widespread...

Apr 28, 2018

Reports from the Picket Line: Columbia G...

Apr 28, 2018

City Sketches: East Coast/West Coast

Apr 27, 2018

Beware the Beast by James Livingston

Apr 26, 2018

Reports from the Picket Line: Columbia G...

Apr 25, 2018

Trumpism at Columbia

Apr 25, 2018

First Person: An Oklahoma Teacher Speaks...

Apr 6, 2018

Red Rambler by Joel Long

Apr 5, 2018

Julian Calendar: Parallel Collage

Apr 4, 2018

From the Picket Line: A Kentucky Teacher...

Apr 3, 2018

Teacher Protests Spread To Kentucky

Apr 3, 2018

The Breeders: All Nerve

Apr 2, 2018

Julian Calendar: Not Your Standard Rock&...

Apr 2, 2018

Towards a Politics of Stupidity

Mar 30, 2018

Rock’n’Roll Don’t Pay ...

Mar 30, 2018

Meteorite from Saturn and Blind Spot by ...

Mar 29, 2018

“Entirely Consensual”? Storm...

Mar 27, 2018

From the Vaults: The Singles Soundtrack

Mar 23, 2018

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Border Crossings...

Mar 22, 2018

Ride: Tomorrow’s Shores

Mar 21, 2018

The Day After Parkland: A Student Reflec...

Mar 20, 2018

The Young Karl Marx

Mar 19, 2018

Camp Cope: How to Socialize & Make ...

Mar 16, 2018

The Trouble with Money

Mar 16, 2018

The Sheepdogs: Changing Colours

Mar 14, 2018

Fake Architecture News?

Mar 9, 2018

Covering Bauhaus

Mar 9, 2018

Thinking About Corporate Activism

Mar 8, 2018

Narrating Hayden White

Mar 7, 2018

Eric Bolander: The Wind

Mar 7, 2018

Sunns: Felt

Mar 5, 2018

Eric Bolander: The Troubadour of Lexingt...

Mar 5, 2018

A Guide to the Many Flags Visible in Bar...

Mar 1, 2018

DEFEAT DEVICES by Drew Milne

Mar 1, 2018

Superchunk: What a Time to be Alive

Feb 28, 2018

“The Concept of Enlightenment” as Parano...

Feb 27, 2018

Unconcealed Weapons: A Modest Proposal

Feb 26, 2018

Three Poems by Marilyn Cavicchia

Feb 22, 2018

Sponging the City

Feb 20, 2018

Creative Writing and Toxic Masculinity: ...

Feb 19, 2018

“This is Not Normal:” Two Decades After ...

Feb 18, 2018

We Need to Talk: Racism and Canadian ...

Feb 16, 2018

From the Vaults: Manic Street Preachers:...

Feb 14, 2018

Evangelicals and Jerusalem

Feb 13, 2018

Franz Ferdinand: Always Ascending

Feb 12, 2018

The Red Car by David Cull

Feb 8, 2018

Cadence Weapon: Cadence Weapon

Feb 7, 2018

The Camp as Archive

Feb 6, 2018

Fuck Football

Feb 5, 2018

Tune-Yards: I can feel you creep into my...

Feb 5, 2018

The History of the Gerrymander

Feb 5, 2018

Jewish Tourism, or, I never cared very m...

Feb 2, 2018

Jewish Tourism, or, I never cared very m...

Feb 1, 2018

Life in Dallas by Helen Gutowski

Feb 1, 2018

The Halifax Explosions?

Feb 1, 2018

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Wrong Creat...

Jan 31, 2018

Jewish Tourism, or, I never cared very m...

Jan 31, 2018

Jewish Tourism, or, I never cared very m...

Jan 30, 2018

The (Sort of) End of Chief Wahoo

Jan 30, 2018

Glen Hansard: Between Two Shores

Jan 29, 2018

Jewish Tourism, or, I never cared very m...

Jan 29, 2018

Notes from a Recent Construction Site Vi...

Jan 26, 2018

Framing Poems by Sacha Archer

Jan 25, 2018

Meat Beat Manifesto: Impossible Star

Jan 24, 2018

Patriarchy’s Latest Trick: Whose I...

Jan 24, 2018

The Problems with Football and Hockey

Jan 24, 2018

On Translation

Jan 13, 2018

Israel cannot cure itself

Jan 5, 2018

DeSoto Love by Kim Goldberg

Jan 4, 2018

My Cars by Charles Bernstein

Dec 28, 2017

A Tale of Too Many Cities: The Trial of ...

Dec 26, 2017

Company, and the journey by Susan Rudy

Dec 21, 2017

In the Idiom: All Cars & Trucks (de...

Dec 14, 2017

Scott Frank’s “Godless”

Dec 8, 2017

DRIVING by Bird Williams

Dec 7, 2017

The Legend of George Orwell

Dec 6, 2017

Trumped Up Violence

Dec 5, 2017

Auerbach and Me

Dec 4, 2017

The Importance of the “Steady Stat...

Dec 1, 2017

A place for unfinished things and Forty-...

Nov 30, 2017

Nothing Says Cluelessness Quite Like Jok...

Nov 30, 2017

What is Trumpism?

Nov 28, 2017

Car Poems: A Collective Vehicle

Nov 28, 2017

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds...

Nov 27, 2017

Reluctant Heroes

Nov 26, 2017

Belonging on the Left: An Appreciation o...

Nov 25, 2017

Belonging on the Left: An Appreciation o...

Nov 23, 2017

Art Bergmann: Remember Her Name

Nov 22, 2017

The Moral Conundrum of Roy Moore

Nov 21, 2017

Black Sabbath: The End (Live)

Nov 20, 2017

Henri Cartier-Bresson: India in Full Fra...

Nov 14, 2017

Robert Plant: Carry Fire

Nov 13, 2017

Listen to Veterans: the Student, Citizen...

Nov 10, 2017

Resurrecting Les Négresses Vertes

Nov 9, 2017

Leonard Cohen’s Church of Montreal

Nov 7, 2017

Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band...

Nov 6, 2017

An Incomplete History of Protest at the ...

Nov 5, 2017

Quebec Shows its Colors

Nov 4, 2017

Wolf Parade: Cry, Cry, Cry

Nov 2, 2017

Tin Star: Revenge, Renunciation and Desi...

Nov 1, 2017

Whose “Free Speech?” A Ruckus at C...

Oct 31, 2017

J. Roddy Walston & The Business: De...

Oct 30, 2017

Days of Future Past in Blade Runner 2049

Oct 29, 2017

Tied to the Mast

Oct 28, 2017

It’s the Chinese, Stupid! … and Other My...

Oct 27, 2017

Quebec’s Bill 62 and the Age of Un...

Oct 26, 2017

Staging the Civil War

Oct 26, 2017

Black Grape: Pop Voodoo

Oct 25, 2017

Bateson in Yellowstone

Oct 24, 2017

On Photography and Filtering

Oct 24, 2017

Stars: There Is No Love in Fluorescent L...

Oct 23, 2017

First Person: For the Love of a Challeng...

Oct 20, 2017

What Happened, a Review

Oct 19, 2017

We are Live!

Oct 19, 2017

Yes Spike Lee, I’d Like My Money Back

Oct 18, 2017

The Vietnam War: Ken Burns’ ‘...

Oct 17, 2017

Disappearing Act: Empúries Visitor Recep...

Oct 6, 2017

Miles to Go by Moral Hazard

Jun 21, 2017