My favorite love song of the past few years is “Video Games,” by Lana Del Ray because of the third line of the chorus. It’s the song’s most burlesque moment, a come-on that should feel scuzzy and ...

As a longtime fan of High Country News, I have depended on HCN’s insightful and balanced journalism on Western U.S. issues for many years. So I am surprised by “The Atomic Road Trip” (HCN, 5/13/19), ...

Like so many of his peers, Dan Beachy-Quick came of age in the heyday of post- structuralism in American universities. The lessons of Derrida infuse his work with a persistent awareness of language’s ...

Narrative, the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Narrative, publishes essays on the theory and interpretation of narrative. It is open to work on narratives of all kinds ...

Right 2 Dream Too (R2DToo) is an established non-profit organization, trying to get legal housing status as a "transitional campground" by the City of Portland. This recognition would protect the ...

Cultural Critique provides a forum for international and interdisciplinary explorations of intellectual controversies, trends, and issues in culture, theory, and politics. Emphasizing critique rather ...

A brilliant, endearing presence on the Homewood campus for more than 60 years, Richard Macksey, A&S '53, '53 (MA), '57 (PhD), approaches knowledge the way a foodie looks at nature: There's potentially ...

This essay critiques classical anarchism using Nietzsche’s concept of ‘ressentiment’ and Michel Foucault’s ideas on power. While Newman caricatures 'classical anarchism' in his haste to define his own ...

Macmillan has agreed to pay up to twenty million dollars to settle the Department of Justice e-book price fixing lawsuit, making it the fifth and final of the accused publishers to reach a settlement.