by Alexander Billet | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Apocalypse Songs: On the Music of Algiers Algiers are, unmistakably, a band well-acquainted with late capitalism’s structure of feeling. Journalists who dubbed their sound “dystopian groove” summed them up accurately. Their distinct, post-punk mélange of electro,...
by Arielle Stambler | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Beyond the Doomsday Machine: Teaching Literature Now Literary study offers an opportunity to suspend disbelief, to imagine the world not as it is, but as it could be. This is the line I write on the syllabus for every undergraduate English course I teach. I want to...
by Shweta Deshpande | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Beyond the Photographs: New Perspectives on Travel Cambodia is the land of Angkor Wat, a World Heritage Site more widely known than the country itself. “City of the Gods” and “Kingdom of Wonder;” these are some of the ways in which the temple complex has been...
by Jeanny Fuentes | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Challenging Patriarchy in María de Zayas’s “Novelas” The virtual archival exhibit Wise and Valiant: Women and Writing in the Spanish Golden Age, curated by Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute and the National Library of...
by Daniel Dominguez | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Why A Tribe Called Quest’s “Excursions” Is the Only Hip-Hop Song You Need On June 19, 2020, producers Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammed teamed up with the legendary jazz musician Roy Ayers to release Roy Ayers JID002, the second installment of their provocatively...
by Charlotte Taylor | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Young, Black, and Magical: The Renaissance of YA Afrofuturism and Speculative Fiction In the late 2010s, an explosion of young adult (YA) novels by Black women flooded through a previously White-dominated sphere, topping publisher lists week after week. Novels like...
