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‘I’m after the painter of memories.’ Aidan turns up the call volume; the voice sounds distant. 

All year, we wait for that perfect time again: summer. The season of tan lines, iced lattes, and late-night memories with our friends.

Image by Adolph B. Rice Studio via Flickr In 1952, Martiniquan theorist Frantz Fanon published the pioneering Black Skin, White Masks ,...

Music Subcultures defining adolescence in the 20th century, but fading into the cultural background in the last 25 years.

In a world of police procedurals, be the first season of HBO’s True Detective . Cary Joji Fukunaga’s critically acclaimed nonlinear...

My God Is A Trickster is a poem written by Faraz Rezai inspired by 20th-century philosopher Alan Watts’ thought experiment about God.

The charm of big city life still hasn’t worn off on me after one year of living in London. In my Washington, D.C. university, I drop...

[Contains Sensitive Content] by Carrie Smith First - the daze. You wake up at eleven AM, eyes dry, mouth dry, head sore. The patch of sun...

In a bid to match his excitement for this film, I’m going to shamelessly use the assertive, if enigmatic, opening phrase of Roger Ebert’s...

Images licensed under Public Domain I had a professor at the university where I finished my undergraduate degree who would spit the word...