Paid to read books

"I get paid to read books!" This sentence - always with the exclamation mark - is the easiest way to identify a new humanities gra...

Friday's assortment

-We've established that  Rejected White College Applicant is entitled, just as we caught a similarly barrel-dwelling fish when we confi...

More on the eternal must-art-be-nice question

I have no intention of seeing the movie "Spring Breakers," having been traumatized at 15 or so by Korine's "Kids," a...

Sweeping

When the "Girls" backlash (and backlash to backlash...) first broke, and everyone was saying that the show was too white, my thoug...

It's spring o'clock somewhere

There was a time - it was warmer out, and I lived in the city - when the idea of eating strictly local seemed, if not practical , exactly, t...

The ultimate busman's-holiday post

-There's a new production of Romeo and Juliet, and while Romeo is white, controversy of controversies, Juliet is black. Having not given...

Holistic and its victims, sympathetic and otherwise

Gawker reports  that a scorned college-applicant has taken to the Wall Street Journal to complain that "just be[ing] yourself" is...

April showers bring frizz

Seemingly in honor of today's date, there are not one but two declarations that curly hair is something other than an imperfection to ...

An Easter Monday-not-April-Fools post

There's a certain branch of Judaism that consists of one principle (no, principal! thank you commenter-copy-editing) tenet: the non-cele...