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"Floaters" by Martín Espada (W.W. Norton & Company) (from Salon)

“Aubade with Concussion” is an Aubade to Perseverance

Teddy Jack, Editor in Chief
May 6, 2025

Poverty is black ice. — Naomi Ayala   You leave me sleeping in the dark. You kiss me and I stir, fingers in your hair, eyes open, unseeing. You leave me asleep every morning, commuting...

Sportswashing vs Sports Diplomacy

Sportswashing vs Sports Diplomacy

Noah Heftman, Staff Writer
April 8, 2025

Since ancient times with the Olympics in Ancient Greece, sports have brought people together. Sports are something that can connect people of all socioeconomic groups and unite them behind their favorite...

Dai Sijie’s Critics Ignore Subtle Writing

Dai Sijie’s Critics Ignore Subtle Writing

Teddy Jack, Editor in Chief
April 1, 2025

A note to the reader: while this argument will still be intelligible without having read Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, I highly encourage you to do so in order to have both greater context...

Steve Ditko

Why Marvel Should Lose the Rights to Spider-Man

Ben Robke, Staff Writer
October 5, 2021

The headlines that Marvel may lose the rights to Spider-Man are certainly shocking, but I want to clear up what this really means. The estate of Steve Ditko, creator of Spider-Man and Dr Strange, and one...

The Impact and Legacy of What’s Going On, 50 Years Later

The Impact and Legacy of What’s Going On, 50 Years Later

Alex Malm, Staff Writer
June 1, 2021

At the beginning of the liner notes for his 1971 album, What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye wrote “After some several days of reflecting and pondering and general thought (which is very unusual), I still...

Abramović as Sellout: Performance Art in Neoliberal Politics

Abramović as Sellout: Performance Art in Neoliberal Politics

Daniel Roytburg, Editor in Chief
June 1, 2021

The concept of performative activism is ubiquitous. Proliferated throughout a summer of spikes in “awareness” around long-standing issues of anti-Blackness, police brutality, anti-Asian violence, etc,...

Moral Kombat: How an Arcade Fighting Game Shaped a Hundred-Billion Dollar Industry

Moral Kombat: How an Arcade Fighting Game Shaped a Hundred-Billion Dollar Industry

Ben Robke, Staff Writer
May 4, 2021

By 1993, video games had come a long way from simple arcade games, such as Pong or Pac-Man. Video game graphics had evolved from simple images projected onto a screen, to 8-bit pixels, and now to 16-bit...

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