Cross-posted to In the Middle: comment there or at the fb. Here’s a draft of my paper for the New Chaucer Society, which I’ll be…
It’s usual to besmirch the Middle Ages as a time of superstition and intolerance. That charge has some merit, so long as we remember that…
Cross posted to In the Middle, where you can comment; or find us on Facebook. Because the field’s so crowded, I’m reluctant to call the “Disputisoun…
Critics usually talk about Charlie Ahearn’s WILD STYLE (1983, filmed 1981/82) as a documentary of the moment when hiphop made contact with with the dominant, “downtown”…
Nearly every year, I teach an MA course at Brooklyn College whose unofficial title might as well be “Literary Theory for High School Teachers.” Late…
Had what I’m sure is a genius idea about the origins of modern racism in medieval chivalric ideology that I’m bound to blog on soon.…
Here’s the tweet in question: @erasmuslijn holy shit, that piece. Here’s one white leftist who knows plenty of poor people in his family and race…
As recycling kingpin Chen Guangbiao toured the neighborhood around Tribeca’s New York City Rescue Mission, he whipped out a $100 bill and tried to hand…
F is For Failure is this post’s preferred title, but it’s already been taken, a mere couple hundred times. It’s also unfair. The film succeeds,…
Last Wednesday, I watched a sneak preview of Eric Rohmer’s Conte d’été (A Summer’s Tale) at the Alliance Française. A particular treat for the Rohmer completist,…
