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HP Lovecraft: the writer out of time In Against the World, Against Life, his biography of the writer, the French novelist Michel Houellebecq ascribes Lovecraft’s racism to his relatively wealthy New England upbringing suddenly bumping up against two years of rougher living in multicultural New York. But fellow writer Nicole Cushingrefuses to accept the oft-trotted…
Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl yes, you read that right, from Academy Award Winning Director Yojiro Takita. See also: -Tampon Tango (1984) -Lolita: Vibrator Torture (1987) -Uniform Masturbation: Virgin’s Underpanties (1992) -Night of the Anatomical Doll (1996)
Raymond Williams “Culture is Ordinary” (1958)
Review: Modern Enchantments by Simon During “During’s implication is that there is something fundamentally flawed about the contention made by critics from Siegfried Kracauer (who in 1927 analysed the high kicks of dancing girls as “the rational and empty form of the cult”), through Debord, Baudrillard and Virilio, that commercial cinema represents the “triumph of…
Call Girl > Tang Fei short story “Morning climbs in through the window as shadow recedes from Tang Xiaoyi’s body like a green tide imbued with the fragrance of trees. Where the tidewater used to be, now there is just Xiaoyi’s slender body, naked under the thin sunlight.”
The Peking Aesthetes – China Channel An alienated community of foreigners in interwar Peking – Jeremiah Jenne In 1935, American scholar George N. Kates settled into a courtyard home in a Peking hutongjust north of the Forbidden City. “No electric light, no wooden floors, no heating apparatus except several cast iron stoves, and no plumbing…
Pop Culture’s Great Awokening The term she grabbed onto was one that had been around for a while, and had made its way from black culture to the New York Times. “Woke,” for Perry’s purposes, seemed to mean something along the lines of sensitive to the experiences of racial, cultural, sexual, and gender identities besides…