Music Reviews
Review: Flamagra by Flying Lotus
Only three of the tracks were available to preview before the album’s full release. But I was so enamored with some of the names that…
Review: Walk Through Fire by Yola
British born “Queen of Country Soul”? Why not? “Walk Through Fire” firmly establishes British born vocalist, Yola, as precisely that. My first encounter with…
Review: Lux Prima by Karen O and Danger Mouse
I was a fan of Karen O since her days as the vocalist for The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Though I have to admit that a lot…
Sultana’s Dream: A convergence of early 20th century South Asian Sci-Fi and Feminism
“We must liberate our minds from mental slavery, because while others may help us to liberate our bodies, none but ourselves can liberate our minds”…
Hidden Black Roots of Dune
Denis Villenueve’s Dune (2021) opens with indigenous people resisting colonialism. The Black, Brown, and swarthy natives of the desert planet Arrakis contrast with the…
The New Space Race: Space Exploration or Space Exploitation
Over the summer there were a series of rocket launches. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk would have you believe that those launches were in…
Interview with an Iranian Otaku
Japanese animated films (anime,アニメ) and the manga (漫画) from which they are often derived has grown into a global cultural force. Our Middle East editor,…
The Problem With “bugging in”
First of all, let’s talk about the democratization of, well, everything. Just because we say something is a certain way or…