AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).
how it feels to say "sprezzatura"
crossover especially appreciated
Favorite book introductions? It's really my least favorite part of academic monographs but it must be done and I hate my draft
Favorite book introductions? It's really my least favorite part of academic monographs but it must be done and I hate my draft
bruno was there hiding the whole time!!! I have been acted upon
without warning my brain just did an actor network theory, help
someone in Hyde Park absolutely blasting a remix of "Fireflies" by Owl City. chicago, please never change
Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
a himbo
Siegfried
In 21 years of teaching, I have yet to meet a stupid student. What I have met in growing numbers is students who don’t know why they’re in college and being taught the material they’re learning. The crisis, to my mind, is not one of capability but of purpose.
He shot her in the head, then called her a “fucking bitch.”
That isn’t self defense, it’s an angry execution.
You can make it at home!!! It’s in the dishoom cookbook, also online — I’ve done it; it takes a day but it’s INCREDIBLE hotcooking.co.uk/recipes/dish...
Love it! But we’ve got an outpost here in Cambridge so there’s amazing black dal just down the street
Dunno if anyone’s on here but: I need a London restaurant recommendation for my birthday. Please, I am such a rube.
Happy public domain day to Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Hughes’ Not Without Laughter, the first four Nancy Drew novels, Betty Boop, and more! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
there are a lot of aspects of precarity that suck but honestly this one might be the suckiest
every time I have to write a syllabus I am filled with rage at the circumstances that have separated me from my library for more than four years now
One of the ways you can see this is driven by an industry looking for some way to make itself profitable? No one has shown any concern that students demonstrate basic competency with computers before enrolling (or graduating)—and, many do lack that.
Wrote a bite-sized review of the new Lockwood, which continues to reveal new treasures to me each time I read it
If anyone (@thebaffler.com @nplusonemag.com @publicbooks.bsky.social) might be interested in an article
offering an ideological post-mortem of almost four decades of The Best American Poetry anthology as a conservative publishing project, I'm yr guy.
ICYMI, I wrote about modernism and the allure of biography for The Nation, through Zachary Leader's new biography of Richard Ellmann, Ellmann's majestic biography of James Joyce, and some Virginia Woolf, because I can't help myself.
These are fantastic! Thank you for sharing :)
dead inside!!!
Spent some time with Zachary Leader’s biography of Richard Ellmann, thinking about modernism and biography’s complicated allure
another foray into this blue zone. anyway I’m kicking around Chicago for a few weeks, if any of you live in the supposedly windy city
Zucchini cake?
What was I supposed to do, judge the president on every other thing he has done?
Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old-fashioned way (given the same bed at a coastal inn)