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On Humanity: A review of “Sapiens”

“Homo sapiens rules the world because it is the only animal that can believe in things that exist purely in its own imagination, such as […]

In Visible Cities: Reviewing “Invisible Cities”

“I speak and speak,” Marco Polo says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting… It is not the voice that commands the […]

The Theory of Home

I feel like I live in two worlds. They’re similar, my two worlds. They come in the same shade of yellow, they have the same […]

The Cats Trailer: The Catgirls You Never Wanted

The Cats trailer blurs the line between animal and human in ways that God/the gods/mom never intended. It may be the ultimate expression of hubris, […]

People Only Die of Love in Movies

Breathing a tragically innocent air of hope into a story that fixates on reality, “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” follows a young woman, Geneviève, and her […]

How To Be Not That Kind Of Girl

I don’t know why I was so afraid to talk about bodies, and specifically, my body, or yours or our bodies. This summer, I picked […]

The Representative from Connecticut Has the Floor

“One nation controlled by the media/Information age of hysteria/Calling out to idiot America.” Sound familiar? Green Day’s 2004 album “American Idiot,” though written with George […]

A Layman’s Review of Alasdair Gray’s “Lanark”

I decided to review this book before I realized how unqualified I am to do so. Having encountered an excerpt from it in an English […]

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Horses To Water

It was a scorching summer afternoon on the steppe of Mongolia, and I was thinking about the horses. They’d run through our camp the previous […]

The Phantom in Your Pants

Picture this. It’s summer — bzz — and you’re relaxing. Maybe you’re on your lunch break sweating through your business casual. Maybe it’s the weekend, […]

Peace by Piece

When I was a little girl, growing up in Wisconsin, my mother read to me. At the end of the night, before tucking me in […]