Utilitarian Review 11/29/14

On HU

Featured Archive Post: Conseula Francis on teaching the Boondocks.

Peter Sattler on Jill Lepore’s Wonder Woman.

Me on how Adam West is the cruellest Batman of them all.

Kim O’Connor on John Porcellino’s Hospital Suite.

Kate Polak on Pride of Baghdad and teaching the invasion of Iraq.

Chris Gavaler on Taylor Swift and the Zombie apocalypse.

A brief thanksgiving post on football, Lucy, and failure.

Me on why mainstream magazines cover game of thrones.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Chronicle of Higher Ed I wrote about being scooped by Jill Lepore.

At Pacific Standard I wrote about the history of highbrow vs. lowbrow.

On Newstalk I chatted about why we need more spoilers.

At Splice Today I wrote about

— Ursula K. Le Guin and why fantasy isn’t necessarily anti-capitalist.

—the crappy Ferguson New Yorker cover.

At the Chicago Reader I wrote briefly about the blues rock band Trampled Under Foot.
 
Other Links

Jordannah Elizabeth with a liberating love mixtape.

538 on the statistical rarity of not getting a grand jury indictment.
 

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