Quite simply, the book review is dead, and the long review essay centered on a specific book or books is staggering toward extinction.
Since August of 2013, and with the help of musician and cultural producer Henrique Gomes, I've been developing this photographic essay centered around the homes of the people who inhabit the area's 16 favelas.
Focusing on the parallel rhetorics of species and race in children's literature, the essay centers its discussion on the abolitionist revision of Maria Susanna Cummins's novel The Lamplighter (1854) in The Lamplighter Picture Book (1855), other abolitionist literature for children, and political cartoons in which species and racial difference figure.
I taught the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments, using the book itself plus an excellent series called "Uses of the Imagination," which included poems, songs, dramas and essays centered on the Bible's fundamental dialectical and cyclical principles.
From the author of Binary Star comes a collection of essays centered on her home state, Florida.
Troemel has written a multitude of essays centered on the erratic development of internet culture and a great number of his papers are also about digital and/or net arts, highlighting in particular the new take on ubiquity and rarity in contemporary arts.
The authors in Naomi Scheman and Peg O'Connor's Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein (2002) explore and employ aspects of Wittgenstein's work that range from engendering the Tractatus to applying his Remarks on Colour to racism though many essays center around remarks in his later work in epistemology and philosophy of language.
Two were string quartets: a meditative essay centering on a short melody of Asian coloring, and a pair of essays in fake film music.
This essay centers on the moral and socio-political dimensions of the European colonial experience as represented in its historical aspect in two so-called "heritage" films, Claire Denis Chocolatt (France, 1988) and Caroline Link's Nowhere in Africa Germanyy, 2002).
A free-flowing essay film centered on the gatherers of the world -- from the drifters who pick over fields looking for produce left behind by the harvesting machines to artists like herself who glean their material from daily life -- "The Gleaners and I" produced an avalanche of mail from viewers who wanted to share their own gleaning experiences.
Littered with similarly hyperbolic language used at his campaign rallies ("The new Democrats are radical socialists who want to model America's economy after Venezuela")., Trump's essay is nonetheless centered not on crime or Kavanaugh but on health care.
