Category: Commentary
To Be Real! “Barbie” as a “Bacch...
Posted by Bonnie Honig | Jul 31, 2023 | Commentary | 0 |
News from the Staten Island Ferry
Posted by James Clifford | May 26, 2023 | Commentary, Waterways | 0 |
Trump’s “Town Hall” A Counternarrative
Posted by Linda Charnes | May 13, 2023 | Commentary | 0 |
On “BreadTube:” Can YouTube Video Essays Be an Eff...
Posted by Patrick Simpson | Apr 29, 2023 | Commentary | 0 |
Darwin 348
Posted by Ernesto Seman | Dec 19, 2022 | Commentary | 0 |
The Hard Hat Riot of May 1970: A Slice of Non-Memoir
by Bruce Robbins | Nov 30, 2023 | Commentary
The feminists of the 1970s, who pioneered the now classic idea that the personal is...
Read More“Love Is Blind” Beyond the Edit
by Racheal Fest | Sep 26, 2023 | Commentary
Love Is Blind’s season four reunion broke the internet. Netflix promised a livestream, and...
Read MoreTo Be Real! “Barbie” as a “Bacchae”
by Bonnie Honig | Jul 31, 2023 | Commentary
Reviewing the film, Barbie, Leslie Jameson depicts her young daughter’s first wish for a...
Read MoreWhat Genre is “Succession”?
by David R. Shumway | Jun 6, 2023 | Commentary
[Critic David Shumway offers both a deadpan account of HBO’s blockbuster success and an...
Read MoreNews from the Staten Island Ferry
by James Clifford | May 26, 2023 | Commentary, Waterways
New York, May 10, 2023 Jim Clifford and Judith Aissen ...
Read MoreTrump’s “Town Hall” A Counternarrative
by Linda Charnes | May 13, 2023 | Commentary
It’s Saturday, May 13th, and I have just watched Trump’s CNN “Town Hall” for the...
Read MoreOn “BreadTube:” Can YouTube Video Essays Be an Effective Form of Leftist Critique?
by Patrick Simpson | Apr 29, 2023 | Commentary
On April 24, 2018, a moderator of the subreddit r/chomsky (a discussion board for Noam...
Read MoreDarwin 348
by Ernesto Seman | Dec 19, 2022 | Commentary
Ernesto Semán watched the 1978 World Cup final in a Buenos Aires home with his father,...
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- The Hard Hat Riot of May 1970: A Slice of Non-Memoir
- Melissa Broder in Death Valley
- Something or Nothing at All
- “Love Is Blind” Beyond the Edit
- Julius Nyerere Translates “Julius Caesar” into Swahili, Dar es Salaam, 1963
- To Be Real! “Barbie” as a “Bacchae”
- THE MAR-A-LAGO AIR
- What Genre is “Succession”?
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