Alex Sayf Cummings's Blog, page 22
February 14, 2020
Up-Is-Down Wins the Losers’ Primary in a Tragic Victory
The Democratic Party's Situationist wing seizes power in a Zen koan coup d'etat.
Up-Is-Down Wins the Losers' Primary in a Tragic Victory
The Democratic Party's Situationist wing seizes power in a Zen koan coup d'etat.
February 13, 2020
Why You Have to Get Doctor’s Notes
I was in my first year or so in a PhD program when I realized…
February 4, 2020
The Ultimate Competitor Leaves Behind a Complicated Legacy
Kobe is the NBA career leader in only one stat: missed shots. What could be more fitting?
January 31, 2020
Out of the Blue, Into the Black
The Good Place's finale reminds us of things we never knew -- like the impossibility of Heaven, and the reality of our singular, inescapable loneliness.
January 23, 2020
"East of East" to Hit the Shelves in February
Our first book tells the story of America's multiethnic suburbia, and reimagines public history through the vivid lives of anarchists, farmworkers, punks, writers and more in the San Gabriel Valley.
January 22, 2020
Huddled Arabs in the Americas: Stacy Fahrenthold on Syrian & Lebanese Migrants in Argentina, Brazil & the US
Fahrenthold's new book reveals a complex story of global migration and shifting identities and allegiances, as both the Middle East and Latin America were transformed.
January 16, 2020
Global Modernist Literature and Metropolitan Unreality
Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 short story “Nevsky Prospect” opens with a paean to the vivacity of life on its titular street.
January 13, 2020
The Tropics of Meta Decade
Ten years ago, we started Tropics of Meta. The world of 8,000-word essays about Detroit wartime housing would never be the same.
January 12, 2020
Tony Judt on the World We Have Lost and Are Losing
In his dying years, Tony Judt reminded us that remembering the 20th century just as a catalog of horrors flattens what actually happened.
