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Idolatry
… event. Just in time before he scorched the hot light died. The bellied curtain rose. Olympus squeaked slowly on … let us glimpse another world where heroes and fair heroines die young of golden age and self-exposure. 436-437 By Roger …
Essays
As They Like It
… student who would actually choose a course on Shakespearean comedy for their senior English elective. It’s my first time … all is mended; in the latter, things go awry and everyone dies). But my true goal—the goal that keeps me awake at … her imagery gathering energy, “That I did suit me all points like a man? / A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh, / A …
Portfolios
By Its Cover
… you can never go back. Without covers, hardcover books become confident blocks of wood—they don’t shimmy or slide in … orange wind-up bird toy against a baby-blue background gradient. Geoff Spear photographed the toy so that most of it … what I want for my own journey as a creative person. It also illustrates the process of finding solutions in design …
Revolution Without Marx or Rand
… in 1968, Robert C.W. Ettinger shared his vision of a coming world in which humanity would be freed by beneficent … them or removing them in the mind of the individual. . . . Competitive drives, in the inter-personal sense, may or may … tomorrow is almost self-parodic; yet in essence it reveals a mindset that is not uncommon. Anyone who would devise …
The Devil and John Putnam Demos: Witchcraft In New England
… the tangled skein of accusations and confessions in that community, a task so brilliantly essayed, for example, by … biography, psychology, sociology, and history—the “four points of one scholar’s compass,” as he puts it—and in each … simply with hysteria; for by studying witchcraft as one studies infant mortality rates or patterns of land distribution …
Poetry
At the Tate
… picture of Gordon, the infamous formerly enslaved Union  soldier with the scourged back trashed with vicious scars    in … galvanizing power of the mutilated Black body. Does horror  compel us more than beauty? A picture of Gordon’s back … of red that seeped from the edge of the brush.”   Her work also hangs in the Tate with a piece titled Esirn Coaler   on …