"...we might mention an eccentric teacher or an idiosyncratic assignment, but "the American dream" and "the green light" and "the three witches" and "the balcony scene" pass between us as a kind of lingua franca..."
To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.
As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other.
We honor her memory and oppose the war.
The iris corner awakens
Ana Schwartz
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective
William Orchard
My new essay, on "The Institution(s) of High School English," and the chasm that exists between high school and university English departments, is out now in Post45!
Such a pleasure to be thinking alongside this fabulous collection of teachers and scholars!
post45.org/2026/06/inst...
Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56
you involuntarily took an oath with yourself to find out what that marvellous painting meant
Popped back on the app to see if @natewolff.bsky.social already has this extraordinary artifact from William Dunlap in his collection of literary historical teeth
