by Ruddy Lopez | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Lineage and Language Throughout my adulthood, curanderas have said that my grandmother watches over me. I knew this was true when my mother came back from a visit to Mexico five years ago. She opened her suitcase and handed me a white plastic rosary and a black shawl....
by Julissa Guerrero Iniguez | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Euphoria’s Minor Mother Euphoria debuted on HBO in 2019, meeting with almost universal critical acclaim. The show is a teen drama that explicitly confronts controversial subjects like drug addiction, abusive relationships, and mental illness. At the show’s center is...
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 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...
