“The plague novel is the place where all human beings abandon all other human beings”
The structure of the modern plague novel, all the way to Stephen King’s “The...
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“the existence of books, no matter how grim the tale, is itself a sign, evidence that humanity endures, in the very contagion of reading”
In the long centuries during which the plague ravaged Europe, the quarantined, if they...
“Nudity in art was not ubiquitous in Eretz Yisrael and America, and it is not surprising that we woke up in the 20th century in American and EY and found these things surprising”
In response to the email from the Lakewood scholar, S. commented as follows: Another...
“Reading on-screen tempts us to see things only through the pinhole of our immediate curiosity”
Reading on-screen tempts us to see things only through the pinhole of our immediate...
“The irony of…should be a warning against assuming any kind of simple binary division between resistance and imitation of colonial cultures”
The irony of finding a deeply Hellenized concept of gender at the very heart...
“…in the Clone Wars, even the soldiers on both sides were manufactured goods. The Republic and the Confederacy had been partners in the same corrupt game.”
The Clone Wars were yet another thing to be upset about. Everything about that...
“…men exist in a state of perpetual confusion about when, exactly, human females are receptive to the idea of having sex”
What it tells us is this: Women are interested in sex. This may be...
“…the landscape in which “Fifty Shades of Grey” has found its audience, with a story almost perfectly suited to this dream: A fantasy of being…”
…our sexual egalitarians don’t want to shut down the party or end the bacchanal....
“A Guide to the Complex is, therefore, such a helpful model for what Modern Orthodox halakhah can be….”
A Guide to the Complex is, therefore, such a helpful model for what Modern...
“there’s something miraculous about books that stops me from tossing them in the garbage”
hysical books — the creepy retronym for the objects formerly known just as books...