The Marginalian
The Marginalian

Search results for “death”

A Rare Look at Haiti: Maya Deren’s Divine Horsemen
A Rare Look at Haiti: Maya Deren’s Divine Horsemen

Breathtaking beauty, voodoo violence, and what the Guggenheim has to do with ritual sacrifices.

read article

SwiftRiver: Intelligence for the Information Age
SwiftRiver: Intelligence for the Information Age

What humanitarian crisis management has to do with brand monitoring and natural language.

read article

Around the World in 80 Diets: Portraits of What People Across the Globe Eat in an Average Day
Around the World in 80 Diets: Portraits of What People Across the Globe Eat in an Average Day

From Bangladesh to Brazil, or what photojournalism can reveal about food and cultural context.

read article

The War Prayer: Mark Twain on War and Morality, Animated
The War Prayer: Mark Twain on War and Morality, Animated

“None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.”

read article

Urban Hackscapes: Augmented Reality 1.0
Urban Hackscapes: Augmented Reality 1.0

iPhone vs. pencil, or what the Library of Congress has to do with cartoon dinosaurs.

read article

The Paris Review Archival Interviews: 10 Favorite Quotes
The Paris Review Archival Interviews: 10 Favorite Quotes

read article

Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin in the Style of The Beach Boys
Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin in the Style of The Beach Boys

An elegant finish on the unfinished, or what the Gatsby era has to do with surfer culture.

read article

These Are Their Stories: Art Based on Law & Order
These Are Their Stories: Art Based on Law & Order

What mustaches have to do with dead bullies and subway-riding bears.

read article

We’re Getting On: The Book That Grows Trees
We’re Getting On: The Book That Grows Trees

Life without Twitter, luddite literature, and why judging a book by its cover may at last be okay.

read article

Cartograms: Making a Point with Distorted Maps
Cartograms: Making a Point with Distorted Maps

Why space is relative and how popular media are making entire continents disappear.

read article

View Full Site

The Marginalian participates in the Bookshop.org and Amazon.com affiliate programs, designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to books. In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book from a link here, I receive a small percentage of its price, which goes straight back into my own colossal biblioexpenses. Privacy policy. (TLDR: You're safe — there are no nefarious "third parties" lurking on my watch or shedding crumbs of the "cookies" the rest of the internet uses.)