Tag: colonialism
Fifty Shades of Feminism
April 2013The cultural historian on the rhetoric of freedom, bossy white women, and the prospects of beating patriarchy by 2040.
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad: Archaeology of Revolutionary Knowledge
January 2013Pankaj Mishra’s new book, From the Ruins of Empire: The intellectuals who remade Asia, has one eye on the history of the East and one eye on its future.
Michelle Legro: Mercator Turns 500
April 2012Ah, to be at the center of the world! How Gerard Mercator changed history by creating the first useful map.
Burial
By Catherine Chung from a novel-in-progress, guest-edited by Alexander CheeJune 2008
She was limp and sweaty but I snuggled into the comfortable softness of her. They had cut her open, and she was whole. She looked very tired and sick; on her gown, blood bloomed like a slow flower.
