A Public Humanities Project
Do you know that feeling when a lightbulb goes on, geographically speaking, and an abstract locale suddenly takes its place on your mental map? Like when I read Middlesex before moving to Detroit. Even though the metro city is a Read More …
In a nod to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie opens on an apparently primordial desert landscape, where a few bored-looking girls play with porcelain babies as a narrator describes the history of dolls in voice-over. A shadow falls Read More …
On July 21st, I went to see Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer in IMAX at the Michigan Science Center. The film is a fast-paced set of interwoven narratives that tell the story of historical figure J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of Read More …