Dolly Parton was an American hair icon. She was also a moral beacon and one of three best white pop songwriters of the last sixty years (the other two are Carole King and Taylor Swift; this is science). [1] These things are connected. Dolly Parton’s vast parade of blond wigs played a significant part in both her moral and aesthetic genius.
Sari Altschuler on the backstory of BEFORE DISABILITY's first sentence:
“On May 21, 2019, Lucio Delgado, a literate, young, Latino man who had spent six years learning English, took the test for US citizenship.”
Today's First Sentence Friday, from The Corporate Forms of Antebellum US Literature:
"From the Supreme Court’s expansions of corporate power in Citizens United v. FEC (2010) and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014) to Mitt Romney’s 2011 assertion that “Corporations are people, my friend” and the angry rejoinder “No, they’re not!,” debates about corporations—particularly over the doctrine of corporate personality— have marked American political discourse in the early twenty-first century."
"I read The Mars Room for the first time in graduate school. Kushner’s novel follows the experience of incarcerated mother Romy’s forceful separation from her son. Reading it made think about what becoming your mother did to me: it reconfigured my sense of self, of others, of who I am to be for others, if I have a choice in the matter. And it makes me wonder: how might my own, limited, conception of motherhood prevent me from asking the right questions? Of seeing, maybe, what is right in front of me."
For lovers of Emily Bronte’s classic 1847 gothic novel, Emerald Fennell’s new film adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” is full of surprises, from the gratuitous public hanging...
