Over at the Smithsonian, Natasha Geiling writes about Santa, who has as many hometowns as Christ has foreskins. Santa lives at the North Pole, or, rather, the “North…
If you read Zizek, you know this bit as well as you know the wheelbarrow joke. Here’s evidence of our pathetic attempt to elude the…
Image from Gautier de Coinci’s Miracles de Nostre Dame (BL NAF 24541, 52v), a child sold to the devil. Last night, some friends threw a spooky holiday…
Talking on Fox news about Eric Garner, NYC’s former mayor says: One of the things the mayor and Sharpton and the others are doing, they…
by KARL STEEL Continue reading Mary Kate Hurley below, and join the conversation in the comments. This evening’s master’s course was supposed to discuss Geraldine Heng,…
Right now, I’m grading a set of papers on the encounter between Alexander and Dindimus. This episode sees Alexander charge Dindimus and the Brahmins with…
I like to give me students something to beat up on, so I started class today with this sentence from Cliffs Notes: In Cincinnati, far…
You probably know Behn’s Oroonoko better than I do. I’m reading/teaching (or that teaching/reading?) it for the first time. Yesterday, we focused on this: All that Love…
I was sure I’d wet myself during the flight. I apologized to Steve: “What’s that awful smell. Is it me?” Like an old man in…
