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Not all books deserve review

February 9, 2015 by William Eaton

By Theana Kastens and William Eaton {Click for pdf}   At times book reviewers receive books that should not be reviewed at all because even bad publicity may prove “better” than no publicity. A reviewer might return such a book, largely unread, to the editor, saying, “Send me another. Leave this one alone.” But sometimes the reading is done, the writing begun; editors want their copy. What to do? Having read an enticing blurb in a highly reputable publication, Zeteo […]

Categories: Review • Tags: Frederick Douglass, oppression, Oscar Wilde, rape, Review

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A culture’s fear of aging

February 9, 2015 by Alexia Raynal

Two weeks ago I came across a book titled How to Age as I strolled through the snowy streets of Brooklyn. The book, written by Anne Karpf, criticized people’s fear of aging and promoted advanced adulthood as a nurturing life stage. To illustrate negative views of aging, Karpf used an exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science in 2000 as an example: In a booth open only to children under 15, participants had their photo taken and then, at the press of a button, a […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: aging, Anne Karpf, art, Boston Museum of Science, childhood, children, How to Age, technology

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Examining White People

February 9, 2015 by fritztucker

Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny by Mark Sandiford, National Film Board of Canada  I just watched a great film, Qallunaat! Why White People are Funny, an anthropological study of White people featuring the Inuit writer Zebedee Nungak. He begins: We Inuit are deeply fascinated by Qallunaat and their ways. The word “Qallunaat” is used universally by Inuit to describe White people. But it doesn’t refer so much to skin color, as a state of mind, a culture that has reached all corners […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker • Tags: anthropology, capitalism, children, colonialism, education, ethics, film, gender, History, immigration, politics, race

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Photo by Lloyd Mulvey shows actors Gibson Frazier (playing Anton) and Zoe Winters (playing Alina) in the Pearl Theatre’s staged reading of Oded Gross’s The Government Inspector, January 2015; directed by Lucie Tiberghien.

“We’re merely pawns in a corrupt system”

February 5, 2015 by William Eaton

The comedian, actor, songwriter, and playwright Oded Gross has done a marvelous (to include quite funny) job of updating Gogol’s classic satire of bad government: The Government Inspector. I will get right to the new text, near the beginning, when the officials of a small town realize that a government inspector is coming. ARTEMIS (The Director of Health): What does he want to inspect us for? ANTON (The Mayor): He’s traveling here to deem whether or not there’s any unnecessary […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: corruption, Gogol, government, politics, The Bible, theater

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La Frontera

February 5, 2015 by William Eaton

Daniel Maldonado {Note: This is the last in Zeteo‘s Fall 2014 series of pieces related to borders.} LA FRONTERA: Artists along the US-Mexican Border Photographs by Stefan Falke, with captions by Stefan Falke and Alexia Raynal   Stefan Falke, a German photographer who lives in New York, has been visiting again and again the cities and towns along the 2,000-mile long divide between the United States of America and what is officially los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. He has taken and posted, […]

Categories: Article, Fall 2014 Issue • Tags: art, borders, La Frontera, Stefan Falke, US-Mexico Border

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You think you can multitask? Think again!

February 5, 2015 by William Eaton

        In 2009 I became aware of a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the effectiveness of multitasking by Professor Clifford Nass, Department of Communication at Stanford. Nass was one of the first academics to study and warn of the dangers of multitasking and decline of social interaction. He and his colleagues at Stanford devised three tests to study the effects of multitasking—an increasingly prevalent activity of the young. They compared chronically […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz • Tags: science, technology

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parra poetry

A Brief Fable

February 3, 2015 by Ana Maria Caballero

This week, I continue to explore the poetry of Chilean writer Nicanor Parra, who could be loosely described as the anti-Neruda anti-poet. The poem below is one of the best I’ve read by Parra. A Man A man’s mother is very sick He goes out to find a doctor He’s crying In the street he sees his wife in the company of another man They’re holding hands He follows a few steps behind them From tree to tree He’s crying […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: books, lit, literature, poetry, reading, writing

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