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,…
A sequence from A Late Quartet (2012). About 5 minutes in, Walken is teaching a group of string players, signalling to us that we’re in a…
Ghada Amer at Cheim + Read by KARL STEEL Two quick points: ONE. First, if you’re a medievalist, particularly a digital humanities medievalist, and you’re not…
Tony Lewis from Whitney Biennial by KARL STEEL What the title says. Over the past couple days, I’ve been reading David Nirenberg’s forthcoming Neighboring Faiths: Christianity,…
by KARL STEEL A few nights ago, I made the mistake of watching The Horde, a 2012 film produced by the Orthodox Encyclopedia, (!), that…
