"In any case, it is difficult to disprove the thesis that we have not yet succeeded in bringing the horrors of the air war to public attention through historical or literary accounts." — W. G. Sebald, "On the Natural History of Destruction" (1999), chapter 3 ...
At one of the many outdoor venues where people in Abu Dhabi can gather to watch the World Cup games on a big screen, football fans gripped the sides of their chairs when Canada scored in Friday night’s game against Morocco. The TV announcer said, “It’s ok, ok. Let’s...
Floods wracked central Appalachia at the end of July, bringing national attention to the region. Much of the coverage has focused on the impacts of coal mining or fallen back on stereotypical representations of Appalachia and governmental responses. The floods have...
On December 6, Georgia held its runoff election, in which Democrat Raphael Warnock secured a narrow victory over Trump-backed Republican Herschel Walker. Warnock’s election is not only historic in that he has become the first Black senator to be elected to a six-year...
The Edge has leapt into the debates ignited by the December 1 publication of the Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022 list currently crackling across social media. We’re not just publishing rebuttals to the list. We are also publishing the nominations of...
Identifying the “Greatest Films of All Time” requires reconsideration in 2022, for at least two reasons. We now have knowledge of and access to many types of films not readily available before…
The British Film Institute (BFI) just released its Best Films of All Time poll for 2022 to much fanfare and self-congratulation among liberal whites. I can almost sense them patting each other on the back — or exchanging poorly executed high fives — for a job well...
“What if a girl in the Holocaust had Instagram?” The Instagram account @eva.stories is a social media project produced by Israeli tech entrepreneur Mati Kochavi. It launched on May 1, 2019, the day before Yom HaShoah, Israel’s annual Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’...
The recent emergence of what has come to be called the video essay or the videographic essay or the audiovisual essay represents a new cinematic avant-garde. It offers implicit and explicit critiques of both commercial media and the logocentric literature of academic...
Despite all the economic woes poising them for victory, Republicans were not able to summon the “Red Wave” they were hoping for, resulting in a historic midterm election, wherein the party controlling the White House saw serious gains rather than losses. In some key...
