Eve Tushnet
Interesting in its own right, and I especially wonder if the comment about the black ASL sign for “pregnant” is true. Read more
Interesting in its own right, and I especially wonder if the comment about the black ASL sign for “pregnant” is true. Read more
new feature at The Fix: Welcome to my first “Ask Maia” column, in which I shall attempt to answer your questions and other matters drug related. I especially hope to answer personal questions about specific addictions—so bring on your problems. more Read more
I write about abusive teen-treatment centers, for AmCon. Read more
Last night I rang in the glorious Halloween season by watching the 1966 film The Face of Another, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s adaptation of the Kobo Abe novel. This is the story of a man who suffers terrible burns all over his face in an industrial accident, who gets the chance to wear a hyper-realistic mask of someone else’s face, crafted by a mad scientist. His story is interwoven with the even sadder and creepier story of a young woman with burns... Read more
The less you care about the Crucifixion, the less I will gain from your reading of Wilde’s writing. Period, comma. (Provoked by this book, which is his dissertation I think and therefore much is forgivable, but also Camille Paglia.) Read more
takes a few paragraphs to get going but once you’re past the irrelevant personal narrative and into the book report it gets good: …With zero-tolerance enforcement demanding obedience for its own sake, students become accustomed to being threatened with arrest for minor transgressions; many, eventually, are arrested; they get dragged to the police station and miss class; they accumulate summons and have to spend a day at court; some go to juvenile detention or jail. “The school, where they are... Read more
Via TKB. Read more
Probably via Ratty. If not, I’m not sure I want to know where I found this. Read more
The Synetic Theater is a DC troupe, mostly run by Georgian immigrants trained in the former Soviet Union, which does dance-based adaptations of literature. So they do wordless Shakespeare, for example, which I totally thought was on par with “jumbo shrimp” until I saw their phenomenal Midsummer Night’s Dream. They do a fair amount of horror. They’re always very OTT, sometimes to the point of kitsch (which I don’t mind), and they typically aim to give you a really intense... Read more
via Ratty, and definitely read to the end (it’s short): In 1978, the farmers in a small Chinese village called Xiaogang gathered in a mud hut to sign a secret contract. They thought it might get them executed. Instead, it wound up transforming China’s economy in ways that are still reverberating today. The contract was so risky — and such a big deal — because it was created at the height of communism in China. Everyone worked on the village’s... Read more
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