Blue dog speaks

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Few clothing items are as ubiquitous or as casual as blue jeans. Yet...

Austrian and German philosophers, in particular the heirs of Brentano, such as Stumpf and Scheler, as well as Wittgenstein, criticized in detail William James’s influential account...

This chapter examines the racial contradictions engendered by the presence of African American musicians in Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past (1947) and Fritz Lang's The Blue Gard...

Abstract The book weaves together a wide range of reactions to Joni Mitchell’s most beloved album, Blue (1971). Critics have ensured its place in a canon of great...

This chapter summarizes the book’s argument. It then turns to discussing the implications of this book for the organization of the aid industry, arguing that international developm...

Red Hot + Blue is a meditation on music’s capacity to find us, transform us, and help us make sense of our historical moment. Blending memoir and cultural history, Garrison recalls...