The business of relationships Has there ever been a society as obsessed as modern English-speaking Western societies are by “relationships,” “love,” and “families” as conventionally defined? Cultural production is dominated by the subject, not just in the popular genres of
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What is a quote? A quote…is a cut, a section, a slice of someone else’s orange.
BY 
Elizabeth MurphyOctober 18, 2023
“Culture, in the true sense, did not [in the past] simply accommodate itself to human beings; but it always simultaneously raised a protest against the petrified relations under which they lived, thereby honouring them.
BY 
EditorOctober 18, 2023
Emily Dickinson’s Victory comes late— first appears in a letter (absent any contents but the poem) sent to Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican, in late 1861 or, at the latest, early 1862:
BY 
Dan MonacoOctober 18, 2023
WILLIAM O’HARA On Lions One day, lions strode through the Streets of Los Angeles.
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William O'Hara, Elizabeth Murphy and Frank Arthor DrakeOctober 18, 2023
OK. What is clear is that a very expensive automobile that is very near me is in trouble.
BY 
Greg BennettsOctober 18, 2023
My paintings reflect my fascination with light; the way it plays on surfaces at different times of day.
BY 
Mark JohnsonOctober 18, 2023
Poet Karen Rigby’s “Norma Desmond Descending the Staircase as Salome” inspired The Straddler to rewatch the final scene of Sunset Boulevard, in which Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, as Salome, lost in fantasy, descends the stairs for the close-up she is famously “ready for.”
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EditorOctober 18, 2023
The following is a single side of a conversation The Straddler conducted with writer and filmmaker Peter Davis, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning 1974 documentary film Hearts and Minds, which examined the Vietnam War.
BY 
Peter DavisOctober 18, 2023
