“The Essay is the Genre of Presence”: An Interview with Nicole B. Wallack Nicole B. Wallack Arts & Culture Nicole B. Wallack, Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program at Columbia University, knows her way around the essay. Her new book, Crafting Presence, not only shows instructors how to teach writing via...
Are Women’s Workspaces Really Their Own? Laurie Cohen Arts & Culture Five years ago, in a survey conducted by ABC News and People Magazine, I Love Lucy was crowned the best TV show of all time. Given that most attempts to gauge public opinion nowadays uncover sentiments firmly...
In Defense of Kink John Altmann Arts & Culture, Philosophy Content Warning: The following article discusses rape, sexual abuse, murder, and other graphic topics. Last month, headlines broke out that a man by the name of Brendt Christensen kidnapped and potentially...
The Etymology of Summer Meriwether Clarke Arts & Culture This piece originally appeared in Entropy Magazine. Author’s note: The date and definition of each word is only the Oxford English Dictionary’s first known recording of the word’s use (in...
You Can’t Eat with Us! When the Working Class Meet High-End Cooking Shows Sarah Attfield Arts & Culture, Politics & Economics Like many reality TV fans, I get caught up in the drama of competitive shows such as MasterChef Australia and more recently, Adriano Zumbo’s Just Desserts. Audiences are given plenty of time over the course...
Recommended Summer Solstice Readings from Hippo Hippo Reads Staff Arts & Culture, Books Happy summer solstice, Hippo readers! What better way to celebrate our slide into the sticky days of midsummer by cracking open a new book? Here's what our staff and contributors are currently reading—and...
The Understated Affection of Fathers Kory Floyd Arts & Culture Men may not be from Mars, but – compared to women – they do communicate in very different ways. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the relationships of fathers and sons. Outwardly, many father...
