Sarah McColl

Sarah McColl’s essays have appeared in South Dakota Review, In Context Journal, and StoryQuarterly, where she was named one of the winners of the 2016 Nonfiction Prize judged by Meghan Daum. She has written about food for Bon Appetit, House Beautiful, and Edible Brooklyn, and was the founding editor in chief of Yahoo Food. She lives in Brooklyn.

Education & Society

Thanksgiving Is a Feast of Things Forgotten

Thanksgiving is a feast so complex and semiotically dense that things are very often forgotten and rarely go according to plan.

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Science & Technology

Can We Build a Better Facebook?

Is it time to turn our back on Facebook? And if so, what social network could possibly replace it?

Education & Society

Jews vs. the “Judeo-Christian Tradition”

Since the 1930s, the idea of a “Judeo-Christian tradition” has been used in American politics, but some Jews have always taken issue with the entire concept.

Arts & Culture

Verbatim: Fredric Jameson

Marxist cultural critic Fredric Jameson offered a philosophy of late capitalism that gave us a language for talking about globalization and the end of modernism.

Politics & History

The Genocide Before the Shoah

For a century, Jews in Turkey have maintained a strategic silence when it comes to recognizing the Armenian genocide. Could that be changing?

Arts & Culture

Lost Literacies Strips Down the Dawn of Comics

In his new book, literary historian Alex Beringer demonstrates how the birth of the genre of printed comic long preceded the Sunday Funny Pages.

Sarah McColl

Thanksgiving Is a Feast of Things Forgotten

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