Essays

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Escapes; or, the Easiest Terrain

“We prided ourselves in not being like other Westerners.”

Technology and the Future of Education: A Teacher’s Testimony

It’s a Wednesday afternoon. I’m teaching ethics—deontology, intuitionism, utilitarianism—to a room full of eager, intermittently agitated high school Seniors. The morning has been cold and rainy, but G Period is…

A Note from the Editor

All things come to their end.

Trans-Parency: An Appreciation of Mary Meriam

An appreciation of the True Countess of the Enchanted Forest Of Flatbroke.

Borderwork: Katarina Zdjelar’s Käthe Kollwitz

It accumulates, repeats, obsesses, this interest in Kollwitz’s work, always back to the physical shock of her art.

Why the Irish Feel the Way They Feel About Irish

The idea that the Irish language is essential to Irish identity has a long and surprising history.

Weegee: Art, Craft, Murder, and the Legacy of Film Noir

For Weegee, creating sublime visual art and taking a useable journalistic photograph blended seamlessly into one another.

Between gods and animals: becoming human in the Gilgamesh epic

What a late addition to the epic tells us about what it meant to be human in the ancient world.

Johnny and I

Who the hell in suburban New York had ever heard of Anniston, Alabama? I had.

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