Nick Cave Wrote a Whole Book on In-Flight Barf Bags

By Moze Halperin on Mar 20, 2015 - Flavorwire

On your next flight, you can pass on reading Skymall (which, sadly, you’ll soon be forced to pass… Read More

The Disappearance of the Strident Protest Novel: ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ at 163

By Sarah Seltzer on Mar 20, 2015

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published on this day in 1862, is known for many things. Jane Smiley thinks it’s an early exemplar of the Great American Novel about race, family, and the American soul, the forgotten yin to Huck Finn‘s yang. Many 20th-century appraisers, notably James Baldwin, excoriate it as the originator of deeply racist tropes, most obviously the titular one. Yet Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has refuted Baldwin to call it a masterpiece. … Read More