Sublime

“It is a curious thing,” D. H. Lawrence wrote, “but the ideas of one generation become the instincts of the next.” The ideas of critical theorists became the instincts of millennials. It wasn’t necessary to have read Foucault or studied under Judith Butler to become adept with terms like “centered,” “marginalized,” “privilege,” and “harm”; to belie

Starting in the 1960s, the social and legal institutions of America were remade to try to eliminate unfair choices by people in positions of responsibility. The new legal structures reflected a deep distrust of human authority in even its more benign forms—a teacher’s authority in the classroom, or a manager’s judgments about who’s doing the job, o

But what was the labor movement’s fight for shorter days and workweeks about, if not the social morality of time? And how about the way we’re always recalibrating our feelings for our friends, or our sense of how they feel about us, with the neurotic precision of a Larry David, based on how many minutes they’ve kept us waiting? If other people’s us

Even after working for so long, I am often made to feel I do not belong, that none of me is valued except what I cannot control—my youth, my race, my weight, my skin, my symmetry. I am a guest here, stopping by so long as age and trend allow.

Wells was best known as a journalist for exposing the lies behind the justification for lynching. Negroes charged with recklessly eyeballing a White woman, or worse, were often people who had found prosperity and respect despite the constraints of Jim Crow. The lynchings put them back in their place. Wells nearly met a similar fate, but escaped as

Individuals like Barron can be men or women, old or young, but chances are their gusto for their singular obsession is captivating (or irritating, depending on your mood that day).

muitas mulheres acolheram bem essa prisão reconfortante em diversos níveis.

Each woman in this book is a workaholic and a perfectionist, in part because anything less than that amount of labor and precise attention to detail could be her downfall. Unruliness can be liberating, but within our current cultural climate, it is also endlessly exhausting.

These experiences of the banality of power are commensurable, and they provide the vantage point from which to see Bella as a tragic character in a feminist story, one meant to serve as an example. Bella’s story only truly begins when she decides she has had enough. What occurs before this tipping point is not a novel, but simply a prologue describ