by Megan Cole | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
Seeing Ecocatastrophe: Environmentalism and the Aesthetics of Climate Change It’s a truism for Octavia Butler fans: the postapocalyptic California landscape of her landmark Parable of the Sower (1993) is nearly indistinguishable from contemporary reality. In...
by Thomas Sojka | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2021
In Pursuit of THE PURSUIT OF LOVE The 2020s have arrived, bringing sensational headlines on the state of the global economy that anticipate “another Roaring Twenties” or condemn the comparison as “absurd.” What these headlines miss, and often obscure, is the reality...
by Kaitlyn Lindgren-Hansen | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Universities Must Protect Workers, Not Profits Even in the best of times, graduate students occupy a precarious position in higher education. But with many universities failing to offer clear directives for what instruction will look like for the upcoming fall...
by Tina Borah | Jul 24, 2024 | Essays, Essays 2024
Challenging the Peripheral: Reading Assam in Reema Rajbanshi’s Sugar, Smoke, Song Growing up in the capital city of Guwahati, Assam, life was marked by recurring floods and occasional violence, shaping a unique resilience in middle-class girls like us. We were...
by Sada Malumfashi | Jul 24, 2024 | Essays, Essays 2024
Can Everyone Travel? What it Means to Travel the World as an African I was just a tourist, and a black one at that.—Ọlábísí Àjàlá, An African Abroad (1963) In a picture from the 1960s, Ọlábísí Àjàlá, a Nigerian journalist, travel writer, actor, and socialite, poses on...
by Paulo Andreas Lorca | Jul 24, 2024 | Essays, Essays 2024
An Eye on AI What makes AI images a strange invention is their innate inscrutability. What we see in these pictures cannot be said to have existed. Unlike photographs, AI images do not result from light falling on material surfaces; they are functions of algorithms...
