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The Empathetic Potential of Fiction
Examining the relationship between feminist literary theory, authority by experience, and the potential of the human moral imagination.
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To Proclaim a Dying World
“A museum setting might sterilize the dread of the inevitable ending at which any chronological exhibit explicitly in conversation with environmentalism must arrive. But the accessibility of this juxtaposition right up front makes sure one is clued into that inevitability and made to feel it violently.”
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No Shrinking Violets
A recap of Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan’s visits to the orange bubble.
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Ghosts of Berggasse 19
“You are buzzed in after a moment, as if you are entering a doctor’s office, as if you are a patient, as if the Freud, whose eyes stare out from the tiers of brochures in the museum’s front room, will tell you in due time what your dreams mean.”
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Latter Genesis
“I don’t make that the answer, because, though mine a fraction of yours,/belief still blossoms when it isn’t too cold.”
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The Anonymous Tastemakers
“During a discussion of symbols in my writing seminar, a classmate referred to the sweatshirt, which they were wearing, as ‘a semiotic wonder.'”
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The Nass Recommends!
A ream of recommendations from the Nass’ mind to yours.
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Telescoping Youth
Memories may fade as distance grows wider between ourselves and our young selves, but one thing remains constant: if we dig down deep into the recesses of our experiences, hold light up to the seeds of our current moment, brush off the dust, we might find something worth writing about.
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The 6, The 305, and What We Want From Charity
Unpacking the hubris of Drake’s newest experiment in rampant exhibitionism.