The spartan interior of a U.S. Air Force C-130 has uncomfortable web seating. Our gear is strapped to a pallet in the aft section, where clamshell doors yawn open until we accelerate down the runway. This airplane is all business—bare...
In Chicago, while taking the El from Wrigley Field to Evanston, Rudy O’Hara was certain he recognized the woman sitting across the train’s aisle, but he couldn’t place her.
It has long been recognized that getting an education is effective for bettering oneself and one’s chances in the world. But a degree and an education are not necessarily synonymous. Credentialing, not educating, has become the primary...
Set during Golden Age of comic books, Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay tells the story of Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, cousins who create a superhero known as “The Escapist.” Now, at...
What redeems literary anthologists, if we’re able to claim neither the creativity of the poet nor the analytic rigor of the cultural theorist? Having dedicated myself for years to constructing elaborate critical arguments, how did I get...
Being born at all amounts to peering out from a cliff Over the sea. The great jellyfish who spread their arms Out on the sea tell us how deep our ignorance is.
