Just watch this ad and tell me you don’t get goosebumps. Narrated by tennis legend Serena Willians, this powerful Nike ad highlights the struggles women athletes face in being taken seriously, breaking barriers, and defying expectations. The voiceover says, “If we show emotion, we’re cal...
I’m talking to writer, teacher, and scholar Dr. Clint Smith about his new book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. We talk about the history of slavery in this country and how we approach, excavate, recognize, and react to that history —...
Combined with the viciousness of the current regime, we want the good guys to beat the bad guys. The bloody battles and the machismo nature of the story make it a muscular vehicle sure to appeal to a male audience. It’s that type of film. However, there is much to see visually to ...
aReading in bed seems to run in families. The last time my mother babysat for me, I got home to find the house dark except for two small lights. One came from my son's room, where I discovered the eight-year-old holed up under the covers with Goosebumps and a flashlight. At the...
to the film’s action; they create new depths and entry points to the story’s rich emotional landscape. “Good music is good music,” Jennifer Wong says, a Canadian Radwimps fan. “I still feel goosebumps every time I watch the meteor crashing into the shrine inYour Nameas the song ‘...
And all I could do was to think about the fact that I had not seen my women friends in three weeks. They were complaining they hadn’t seen me, and all I wanted to say to him was that, “That’s crazy. I’m not even seeing my women friends recently,” which, that’s a great...
Play with the goosebumps that form on your skin. Play with your curvatures of skin — kneading, molding, moistening. Writhe with the fluttering beats of your heart & the quickening of sultry, warm breath. Open up to lustful indulgence, filling your senses with wanton fantasies. And when the...
I teach English literature, so students sometimes say that they find the novel hard, or that it is boring, or that they couldn’t get through it. I have a big interest in psychoanalysis, which at its heart is all about ambivalence. So a sullen response to a set book is, for me, a...
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There’s a similar glassy iridescence to Travis Scott songs like “Pick Up the Phone” and “Goosebumps.” From Rodeo and Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight to Astroworld, Scott’s albums could easily be filed under “ambient” as much as rap. If there’s a through line to his work, it...