“One Cannot Redeem the Past”
An Interview with C. Derick Varn
Figure and Frame
Safi Faye's films invert the ethnologer's gaze on rural life in Senegal
Barry Jenkins’s Cinematic Technique
A formal analysis of If Beale Street Could Talk
A Political History of the NFL Jersey
The evolution of the professional football jersey tracks that of racial capitalism, technology, and empire
A Division of Labor
A science fiction TV drama explores questions of slavery and self in the workplace
Chastening the Past
Indigenous critiques of gender and marriage go further than The Dawn of Everything
Egypt’s Season of Starlets
In the 1940s and 1950s, all of Egypt was transfixed by the divas of its rising film and radio industries
Our Neighbor From Hell
"May December" asks hard questions about what a community does with its monsters
The Importance of Being Hermes
The occult spiritual practice of Oscar Wilde
The Soul of Man Under Fascism
Reading Gramsci’s prison letters in an age of catastrophe
