Imagining the End(s) of the Earth Siobhan Carroll Art & Literature, Arts & Culture Environment, Climate Change, history, imaginaries, siobhan marie carroll, exploration, British colonialism.
Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation David Crystal Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Books “Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories,” writes David Crystal in his new book, Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation (Profile Books). He then fills the pages with the...
Pop Divas Turn an “Old” Sound into Power and Experience Alexandra Apolloni Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Society & Culture In 2014 Aretha Franklin released her first album since 1985: Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics. Whether critics praised it or panned it, they wanted to talk about age. “At age 72," the...
The Night Clark Gable Came to Town Lisa Annelouise Rentz Art & Literature, Arts & Culture First, Lilo Creighton arrived, about ten years before the famous guest. Lilo was white-blonde, bronzed and German, and quite athletic. She was often seen sprinting around town like she was trying to outrun...
The Electric City Kashana Cauley Art & Literature, Arts & Culture This story originally appeared in and is re-published with gratitude from The Common. We bought Detroit because even after buying ourselves new houses and cars, $253 million in lottery winnings...
Top Philosophy Reads for Summer Angela Roothaan Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, History, Philosophy Do you sometimes worry about the large-scale destruction of tropical forests, about failing states around the world, or the neo-colonial attitude of rich countries in responding to migration from many poor...
Leaving Walter Lori Ostlund Art & Literature, Arts & Culture This story originally appeared on The Common. Copyright © 2015 by Lori Ostlund. From the forthcoming book After the Parade by Lori Ostlund to be published by Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc....
