Forest shade, lake shade, poplar shade, highway shade, backyard shade, café shade, down-behind-the-high-school shade, cow shade, carport shade, blowing shade, dappled shade, shade darkened by rain above, shade under ships, shade along banks of snow, shade beneath the one tree in a bright place, shade by the ice cream truck, shade in the new- car sales room, shade in halls of the palace as all the electric lights turn on, shade in a stairwell, shade in tea barrels, shade in books... Читать дальше...
I’ve been in the television business for eleven years, long enough for people to start calling me “seasoned.” Seasoned means a cross between “old,” “disagreeable,” and “only wears slacks.” TV, like professional sports, is a young man’s game, and after eleven years you’re just the guy in the dugout talking about the old days and spitting into a tin can. That last part is the only part I actually do.
Spectacle, by Pamela Newkirk (Amistad). In 1906, Ota Benga, a Congolese man, was put on display at the Bronx Zoo as a “pygmy,” often caged and left in the company of an orangutan. Benga had been brought to New York by a missionary and adventurer who claimed (falsely) to have saved him from cannibals; for three weeks, visitors gawked at, and often taunted, the star attraction. Ten years later, having led a lonely and desultory life in America, Benga committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest. Читать дальше...
On a recent Wednesday, Olivett Tisson, a rising senior at the Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women, in Brooklyn, stood with a group of her classmates at the edge of Cadman Plaza Park, holding a stack of leaflets. “I’m not the type of person to go out and, like, protest,” she said. “I keep to myself.”
Early on the morning I went to see the San Francisco artists Barry McGee and Clare Rojas at their weekend place, in Marin County, a robin redbreast began hurling itself at a window in their living room. “It won’t stop,” Rojas said. She picked up a sculpture of a bird from the inside sill to warn it off. When that didn’t work, Rojas instructed her fourteen-year-old daughter, Asha, to cut out three paper birds, which she taped to the window, as if to say: GO AWAY. “Can I let it in, Clare?” McGee asked gently. Читать дальше...
In 1983, when I was a teen-ager, my brother told me that you could reach a BBS—an early online community—through our phone line, using a modem. I dialled in, and was met by that digital shrieking sound, the now nostalgic “handshake.” The sysop greeted me with a message in neon-green letters, something like “Hello, friend.” Unnerved, I signed off, and didn’t go online again until college.
Donald Trump’s campaign slogan is “Make America Great Again!” A better one might be “Only in America.” You could not ask for a better illustration of the complexity of ordinary Americans’ attitudes toward class, wealth, and social identity than the fact that a billionaire’s popularity among working-class voters has given him the lead in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination. In a recent Washington Post/ABC poll, Trump was the candidate of choice of a full third of white Republicans with no college education. Читать дальше...
Darren Wilson, the former police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an eighteen-year-old African-American, in Ferguson, Missouri, has been living for several months on a nondescript dead-end street on the outskirts of St. Louis. Most of the nearby houses are clad in vinyl siding; there are no sidewalks, and few cars around. Wilson, who is twenty-nine, started receiving death threats not long after the incident, in which Brown was killed in the street shortly after robbing a convenience store. Читать дальше...
“In Reach” by Pamela Carter Joern, University of Nebraska Press, 197 pages, $18.95
He spent 10 years as governor of Nebraska. It will take more than seven months for him to shed the title.
FORT CALHOUN — It was young America's largest military post and the nation's first fort west of the Missouri River.
ONALASKA — Time to move over Don “Ivy” Iverson. You, too, Ryan Quinn, although your uncle had already, almost quietly, surpassed you last year.
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