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March 6, 2013
Proving a Villain: The Search for Richard III 8
by Will Glovinsky
The modern world swooned last month when the bones found under a parking lot in Leicester, England were confirmed to be those of Richard III. Richard’s apologists hope that his newfound celebrity will encourage us all to submit our old Shakespearean prejudices to a round of honest fact-checking.
March 27, 2012
The Camaraderie of the Underrated: JC Gabel Relaunches The Chicagoan 5
by Janet Potter
Chicago! We’ve got this great chef, and an amazing architect, and these cool music guys, and really good coffee!
January 25, 2012
Copyrights Wake: SOPA, James Joyce, and the Future of Intellectual Property 4
by Maxime D. McKenna
We are going to need a completely new online framework for supporting creators, and to get there, we might have to move beyond a tired notion of “copyright” and towards “author’s rights.”
January 9, 2012
Orhan Pamuk’s Unlikely New Role 0
by Kaya Genc
Turkish media’s attempts to trivialize dissidents by focusing on their private lives has a touch of the News of the World scandal about it.
December 28, 2011
Race and American Poetry: Dove v. Vendler 34
by Jonathan Farmer
Vendler asks us to think of value in terms of a hypothetical and permanent future, one that will have unvarying and therefore conclusive notions of what was good and bad in our writing. It’s an exasperating argument, since it asks us to defer to the critic’s mystical conjuring of our far off progeny, a population that will, of course, have the same values as the critic herself.
November 11, 2011
The Disappointment Author: Lethem v. Wood 102
by Sam Allingham
The critical takedown is well-known cultural corrective with a long and glorious history. The fellow critic providing cultural corrective to someone who has gotten too big for his or her britches — it’s practically a public service, if you do it right.