Hans Rollman
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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Oh, Canada! (in Ass-kicking Comics)
It's probably to Canada's credit that it's never produced a best-selling superhero like Captain America. Instead, we've got five comics here that'll thrill one's identity politics for Canada Day -- and kick some ass, too. → Read More
CONVENIENCE STORE VIRTUES (OR, THE ALIENATION OF MODERN LIFE)
Sayaka Murata's award-winning debut, Convenience Store Woman, finds that when social life becomes too much, even a convenience store can be a welcome refuge. → Read More
Is This the Death of Democracy in America?
The United States has pulled back from the brink of authoritarianism before. But a new study reveals the daunting challenges the country faces in preserving its democracy. → Read More
Is This the Death of Democracy in America?
The United States has pulled back from the brink of authoritarianism before. But a new study reveals the daunting challenges the country fac → Read More
Everything You Need to Know About Eurovision 2018
Eurovision -- with all its quirks, its complicated voting, its ever-disputed rules, and the radically different values and identities it allows to clash so dissonantly, mostly harmlessly, and at times even harmoniously -- remains a delightful preserve of modern global folk-culture. → Read More
Ministry, L7, Sex, and Violence
We need to talk about Ministry's anti-war statement, because it encapsulates so much that's so wrong about testosterone-driven masculinist activism. → Read More
Everything is Broken Up and Dances: The Crushing of the Middle Class is an aesthetic delight, couching scathing social and economic critique in a near-poetic outpouring of creative rage.
Edoardo Nesi and Guido Maria Brera are classic liberals. They believe the free market works, that minimal regulation is good, that ultimately penny-pinching efforts by governments to get out of debt can be a good thing. Brera is an investment manager; Nesi inherited a textile manufacturing company.. → Read More
Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces, and Other Academic B.S.
University campuses are seething. But telling people to get along with each other is not the answer. → Read More
What's Wrong with Our Food System? Capitalism.
Our food system is working exactly as it should under capitalism.That's the problem. An interview with Food First Director Eric Holt-Gimenez. → Read More
Jean Giono's Slim 'Melville' Belies the Depths Within
Giono's quirky tale about Herman Melville reminds us that fiction can help us better understand reality. → Read More
It's Time to Confront the Tyranny of the Professional Class
The Amateur argues that professionals -- and the roles they assume -- facilitate the wealth generation of those in power in our neoliberal hierarchy. → Read More
Fyre Festival Is an Argument for Higher Taxes
Every day elite policymakers throughout America make the same arrogant blunders as the Fyre Festival organizers did, and their mistakes can be seen in a drive through most inner cities. → Read More
On Race and Meritocracy in Academia
Todays elite universities and students claim to value diversity. But do they really? → Read More
Can Literature Like Banana Yoshimoto's 'Moshi Moshi' Heal the Soul?
For those who haven’t yet experienced Bananamania, Moshi Moshi is as good a place to start as any. Because what Yoshimoto does, she does incredibly well. → Read More
'Pretending Is Lying' Explores the Complexity of Human Relationships
The nostalgic self-reflection in Dominique Goblet's work is painfully honest and verges on the bittersweet. → Read More
Was Your iPhone Produced by Slaves? Has It Made You One, As Well?
Media scholar Jack Linchuan Qiu argues that slavery-like conditions, which define digital media workers, mirror the slavery-like obsessions of consumers. → Read More
Eugen Ruge Explores Alienation in 'Cabo de Gata'
Ruge's latest muses upon the routines and ruptures of belonging. → Read More
The Mexican Journey That Made One of the 20th Century's Finest Writers
Sybille Bedford's account of her remarkable year in Mexico is the perfect introduction to one of the 20th century's most remarkable writers. → Read More
'Planetes' Should Be Required Baggage on the First Mission to Mars
This space drama aboard a garbage collection ship makes for first-rate sci-fi. → Read More
Question Everything, Especially If You Believe in It: An Interview With Stuart Jeffries
It’s difficult to imagine today’s neoliberal universities producing anything remotely like critical theory, or even a school of thought that substantively challenges prevailing intellectual paradigms. → Read More