Music
Teaching the Harlem Renaissance
I Skyped with four eighth graders seated in someone’s living room while someone’s grandma puttered around in the background, obviously eavesdropping on our chat about..
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Non-Fiction
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Culture
What They (Don’t) See
Starting in level 1, we began getting evaluations each spring. They checked boxes to indicate our progress in four categories, and now I can’t remember..
Music
King and Queen of the Weekend: The Glorious Revisionism of Lorde’s Melodrama
In 2013, Pure Heroine burst into pop culture with a precocious “Royals” that was more acutely aware of the limitations of adolescence and the humility..
Culture
Accidental Landlord
Enticed by stories of people who were flipping houses and making piles of money, I bought a run-down house on Montrose Avenue in spring 2006…
Memoirs
ZAYDE
My grandfather had died. I was four years old. I rested my elbows on my mother’s knees and gazed up at the strange men…
Culture
Temple of Irreverence
I am neither religious nor especially spiritual nor convinced that God exists. Jewish by background, I am secular in practice. And while I appreciate the..
Cinema
An interview with Shailaja Padindala
The short film ‘Memories of a Machine’ was screened on 15th Oct, 2016 at the Seattle South Asian Film Festival. Written and directed by Shailaja Padindala,..
Culture
Mehnat and Mazdoori in Barcelona
My husband and I are on our way from Madras to Paris. Chennai, actually. Calling the city Madras is more like responding to our pet..
Culture
The Sway
In Ecuador I keep seeing a trace of 17th Century handcarts known, at one time, to have carried Confucius. But now we’ve come to..
Literature
A Magical Review: Harry Potter and The Cursed Child
Harry Potter and The Cursed Child hit the bookstores on 31st July, 2016 and it has been causing an insane amount of excitement across..
Culture
The Commune
America has a long history of utopian experiments, a history that stretches far beyond the hippie communes of the 1960s. Some of the earliest European..
Literature
Mahasweta Devi: Writing as Protest
Embed from Getty Images When I first read Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi, it created a minor explosion in my ‘reading’ life. The theme and starkness..
Memoirs
In a Dark Wood
1 There were four bunks in the room and two seemed already claimed. Some boxes sat on them, partly opened, and some clothes hung on..
Culture
Colored Lights
Belmont is a neighborhood for lawn ornaments. We decorate the private landscape: Canada geese by the front walk, pink flamingos in the garden bed, a..
Editorial
From the Editorial Desk
It is our tendency often, to divide the world. The cans and can-nots, the haves and have-nots, deserving and the undeserving, all become part of..
Literature
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In the middle of Crime and Punishment Dovstojesky – otherwise sticking tight to his characters from beginning to end – takes a brisk leap back:…
Literature
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One knows by comparison and sometimes, as in Blake, through contraries. It is evident in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience and less…
Literature
Walter Benjamin, Or How the Essay Should Be
Atharva Pandit studies Walter Benjamin’s art of essay
Culture
Being Marxist, Being Santiago
Sabah Carrim chats with Santiago, a political refugee from Chile
Music
A Trip through Indian Classical
Goirick Brahmachari’s poems on the theme Indian Classical
Cinema
2 or 3 Things I Know About Jean-Luc Godard and Luis Bunuel
In 1967 two of the most significant figures in the history of cinema, both of whom were working at the height of their powers, released films on dramatically and coincidentally similar themes: Jean-Luc Godard’s 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her and Luis Bunuel’s Belle de Jour. Michael Paul Hogan studies both movies.
Literature
Saadat Hasan Manto – A Retrospective
Maitreyee ponders over Manto’s writings
Cinema
From ‘Calcutta’ to ‘Kolkata’
Amitava Nag explores the journey of Bengali Cinema over the years
Design
Patrick Geddes
Robert Boucheron inspects the legacy of Patrick Geddes, 100 years after Cities in Evolution was published.