Can First World Literature Teach us Anything?
Can bourgeois, monolingual authors provide insight into the experience of marginalized others?
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Say No to the War Machine
When the drumbeat of militarism rises all around us, how do we think our way out of the War Machine?
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Victoria-based Dreamboat is able to convey the complex flurry of emotions experienced after the rupture of a human relationship with the use of simple electronics and clever repetitions of verse.
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After attending an academic exchange program sponsored by the Chinese government for 36 of the world’s leading young sinologists, Mark McConaghy reports back on what he learned.
Read more "Solidarity Beyond Culture: What Three Weeks in Beijing Taught me About Democracy"The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show, Part 3. The Other End of Words.
The third installment of Sean Callaghan’s Zombie Flash Fiction series takes us on a short detour to the edge of meaning.
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On this selection from his intimate 1996 album The Charity of Night, Bruce Cockburn takes on the fleeting nature of love and experience by, in elegantly contradictory fashion, taking his time.
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The next installment in Sean Callaghan’s ongoing zombie flash fiction serial.
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Sean Callaghan writes the first flash zombie fiction installment in his ongoing series, “The Zombie Apocalypse After-Show.”
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In which Sean Callaghan ruminates on the political unconscious of The Walking Dead, on what it means to have hope during a zombie apocalypse, and where we go after the dust has settled on all our dead undead.
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Music and summer form a sublime combination. Here are five selections to help you begin preparing a respectable summertime soundtrack for this year.
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The 14th Floor 