Once I learned the club was in proximity to the crash site, my obsession with calculating the distance between the two quickly overtook any other interest. The sedimentary layers of history, and how close they are to the surface, give me vertigo. I wanted to feel time spin.

A history of carrot cake in America.

A feminist reading of Fire and Fury.

Why it's okay to play with Manson family paper dolls: The first six installments of John Reed's Manson Family Paper Doll book. Print & Color Yourself!

The First World War ended 99 years ago. Or did it?

Reflections on the tail end of the year.

An author’s visitation seems, in my students' eyes, a resurrection.

When universities rely heavily on contingent labor, they do more than reduce their own bottom lines.

Weiqing Yuan on being a Chinese street artist in Times Square

Considering recent contemporary art in Israel.

The singular power of portraiture's 20th century master.