Mazel!! 🎉🧿✨

i’m revising an essay where i am mildly annoyed by the amount of known history i have to rehearse but then i remembered the time in early grad school where one of my students learned i was somali and then said to me, “i didn’t think somalis existed anymore. i just didn’t know they had that anymore.”

This essay over the new Wuthering Heights

The Sexual Politics of Pastry In Mary Gordon’s novel Final Payments, the narrator Isabel Moore marks a new phase of her life by having drunk sex with her married boss in a car. Her father dead, her Catholicism withering, Isabel…

"When bodies jiggle, shake, leak, or squirt they supply the evidence of a pleasure received. By transposing these expressions from humans to food, our chefs coax bodies to confess without claiming to have triumphed over a real woman’s self-command." Elizabeth Greeniaus on "horny chef videos."

my student described it to me as “we did a drive by” 🤣

sorry, but what the actual fuck are you talking about?!

something i didn’t have on my 2026 bingo card, a feeling of affinity with the roman catholic church.

4: Creating AI-Free Learning Spaces - Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning - Oakland University

Fed up with AI boosterism on our campus, my colleague Tim Donahue and I wrote this Teaching Tip for our Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. www.oakland.edu/cetl/teachin...

even though i’m clearly a neurotic4neurotic i do own this shirt because i’m a good ally of the hysterics community.

guys, i’ve been rather overwhelmed by earth and its associated emails and crimes, had something happen on/to the moon recently?

This week, we published an excerpt on the Oakland sideshow, from Alex Werth's "On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland," and it's essentially the one thing you need to read to understand the sideshow outside of the envelope of white moral panic: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sideshow-his...

today from 11am-4:45pm i had continuous, meaningful, difficult, productive, and truly transformative conversations with undergraduates regarding judith butler’s 46-page introduction to gender trouble. sometimes i can’t believe my luck 🍀

Mixtape #8: Spring Cleaning Spring is here! For Mixtape #8, we asked our editors and contributing writers what in culture they’re cleaning out for spring. Here are some of what we’re leaving behind and what we’re making space…

We are back from our spring hiatus with a mixtape about spring cleaning! For Mixtape #8, we asked our editors and contributing writers what in culture they’re cleaning out for spring. Here are some of what we’re leaving behind and what we’re making space for this spring.

Huzzah 🎉 At last! (is there an easter joke here?!)

This issue has been in the works for a while, and now all of the sudden it's here! Many thanks to Patty Keller and Rhiannon Noel Welch for putting this together!

Relatability An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Brian!!! ‘alf mabruk!!! 🎉🎉 I gagged, as the kids would say, seeing this stunning cover

microsoft excel has already made me cry today and it’s not even 8am. happy monday!

the amount of god in basketball is very challenging for me. jesus grant me the strength.

we’re at work on a future workshop for mtc on this exact question, tentatively titled whose public?

it’s hard work being an editor because you’ve to be an advocate for the piece and the reader, but also be on the side of the author and sometimes these are at odds with each other. there’s no room for your own ego as it’s already a crowded plate which is why it’s always very obvious when it appears.

these are the only days i can actually enjoy my living room. i wanna go down there and be like who is this theatre for?? have you considered doing something useful with your day, like moving to florida? or cleaning plastic bottles from the bay?!

i can’t adequately express my deep disdain for the wealthy boomer berkeley liberals in my neighborhood who stand feet away my window with ineffectual little signs, courting every passing car, inevitably driven by another boomer liberal, to honk. This goes on every friday and most saturdays

I can always count on you to sober people with a cold splash of reality

"Treated as a blight on the landscape of modern media, fanfic has become an easy scapegoat when the relationship between aesthetics, profit, and prestige falls out of alignment."

You can read other pieces in the series here: mid-theory.com/category/cha...

Who’s Afraid of AO3? Adaptation is everywhere! In the spring of 2026, MTC is running a new series called Adaptation Anxiety, where new and returning writers consider literary adaptations from the last few years. W…

In our latest installment of our 'Adaptation Anxiety' series, Emily Coccia scrutinizes the oft-cited charge that a work of adaptation reads like 'fanfiction' as a short-hand for a host of complaints about recent works written and/or directed by women.

i’m watching the new kate moss/kerry washington show and the only thing distracting me from how mid it is is the slightly funny memory of the time my friend said i look like kerry washington and i got so upset i wouldn’t let it go all night.

for example, he attended new england boarding school then went to harvard where in 1960s he was involved in the campaign to create the harvard association of african and afro-american students. which harvard forbade on the basis that it was racist. history is on a loop. few years he left for algeria

if i were ever to write a literary biography it’d be on ayi kwei armah but i think the very idea would be offensive to how he has lived his writing life. at the same time, i want to read the “hateful letters” he sent to achebe!

perhaps it is more work for both sides and the students might not immediately be onboard but i find they adopt quickly and the work is worth jt when on the line is their capacity to think for themselves and be encounter their own subjectivity and the consciousness of other humans past and present