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When Korean Wave Flows Back: The Ethnic Face of Hallyu in Korean Television Audition Programs

On April 6, 2018, WJSN, a Korean girl group, performed a traditional Indian dance with fake mustaches on an episode of TvN’s Super TV. The members attempted to make a…

Special Chairs

In the one-paragraph story “Special Chair” (2001), Lydia Davis describes the situation of writers who teach in the university system as one of shared longing. “He and I are both…

Geek Temporalities and the Spirit of Capital

Jeff Bezos begged to appear on Star Trek Beyond. Sergey Brin drew inspiration from Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. Elon Musk loves video games and cites Isaac Asimov, Douglas Adams, and…

Queer Times for the Straight Book: Maggie Nelson and Michel Serres

If you read a lot of Michel Serres – and you might: he’s written many books, about a lot of things – a conundrum emerges. On the one hand, he…

Sex and the City: Ned, November 21

Bed-Stuy, New York Dear Girls, I can’t believe we’ve reached the end. In lieu of collecting my thoughts and actually writing something about Sex and the City, I’ve decided to embrace…

My Struggle , vol. 6: Stephanie, October 5

Cambridge, MA Dear friends, When Dan asked me if I wanted to write about My Struggle for Slow Burn, I told him I was only interested in writing about “the…

My Struggle , vol. 6: Dan, September 28

Denton, TX Dear friends, I think Book 6 is something new. My guiding theory of My Struggle so far was that Knausgaard’s technique of dilation, his extended description of every…

My Struggle , vol. 6: Omari, September 25

Salem, OR Dear all, Before we get to Hitler, I want to talk about literary theory. In my last letter to you, I was just beginning a new life on…

The Slow Burn: Sex and the City

Ari M. Brostoff, Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Ned Riseley, and Andrea Long Chu