(A guest post from Subashini Navaratnam .) For example: “Partitions is a Novel Expressly About Hope in a Time of Despair,” by Subashini Navaratnam. I’ve been reading the current flap over nice reviews vs not-nice reviews and wondering what this says about me, that I write not-nice reviews. Maybe I’m…

Even the most rational of people feel a sense of unease when it comes to broken mirrors. And, as someone who recently bought a new unicycle because “my other two unicycles aren’t great for my commute,” I’m clearly not the most rational of people. So when I dropped my bathroom cabinet while moving…

It’s a harmless curiosity, but that’s not how you’ll see it. You will recoil and glare, perhaps blurt some epithet to quickly define your discomfort with the situation, and I’ll immediately be on the defensive despite my harmless intentions. It’s understandable that you would jump to conclusions,…

When I picked up my friend Moshe Rubinstein at Keflavík Airport about twenty five years ago and drove to Reykjavík he kept talking about the American astronauts training in Iceland. “No wonder,” Moshe said. “It looks just like the moon.” I was irritated, but only because it was true. The area south…

This guest post from Laurie Penny comes with a trigger warning for rape and sexual assault that should be visible from space. *** Rape. From the Latin, “rapere,” to take or snatch. Usual meaning: to penetrate another person’s body sexually without their consent. From the Sexual Offences Act, 2003: “…

This article about Obama and race makes a depressing case about politics, and the Nixon-to-China syndrome: http://t.co/kRE2rO0Q

Sexual intercourse has mystified and puzzled humans since they were painting each other fornicating on cave walls. Indeed, the practice of love-making is always changing, often due to shifting social norms. Did you know that as society’s idea of what is “sexy” or what is “hot” has changed, so too…

In 2006, Steven Heighton read from his poetry collection The Address Book at Carolyn Smart’s creative writing class at Queen’s University. Grace O’Connell, then an undergraduate in English Literature, remembers being “utterly mesmerized,” and she approached Heighton for advice on what would become…

Exclusively focusing on technological problems leads us to look for fixes in the wrong places. Another day, another New York Times story about technology addiction. It's almost like they are trying to win a Pullitzer Prize or something by pandering to the preformed opinions of journalists like…

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali First off, too many clocks. Just pick a clock and stick with it, and once you’ve picked the one you stuck with, make it readable. I want to know what time this painting is happening at. That tree on the desk should be coming out of the ground, not the desk,…

I recently made a controversial statement during a presentation: facts are meaningless. The audience responded with nervous laughter, probably wondering how to digest this remark. But in our business of working with social change, this landscape means that we need to consider our work in this…

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