Hoarding 2.0
In the hoarding series’ first installment, Garrett Tiedemann meditated on the behavior of collecting books and when, if ever, a collector has the right to purge. Sophie Summertown Grimes followed up with a reframing of the act as an artform. But I submit a much more widespread hoarding epidemic of the literate: the internet. The […]
Review: How To Be Black by Baratunde Thurston
Like its author, How To Be Black is a bit of a scattershot—confessional, political, comedic. But let me explain what the book is not: It is not an instructional how-to in the spirit of …For Dummies. Written more explicitly, “This book is not How to Become a Black Person If You Are Not Already Black.” […]
Don Draper: An Ancient Perspective
It might only be a matter of time before primetime is graced by a period drama centered around the Platonic Academy. With Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers, we have reliable source material. And with academia’s insistence on teaching the Classics, we have indication that interest in Plato and his cohort has not dwindled in the slightest these […]
Feast: Recordings of Consumption
In Indonesia a common form of greeting is: “Have you showered today?” This may sound strange to us, but it’s really hot there, and people take many little cold showers throughout the day called mandis. Asking whether someone has showered is the same as someone in the grocery store saying, “how’re you doing?” to us. […]
