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Bop: Microfunk and the Peculiar Upside of Crushing Boredom
The Russian poet and Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky once gave a speech to the students of Dartmouth College on the philosophical benefits of boredom. “It...
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That Black: The “Staggering, Yet Encouraging Story” of Timelessness
Donetsk is a major industrial city in eastern Ukraine. Now home to almost a million people, its size is very much a consequence of the twentieth century....
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VIA Tatiana: Savoir Faire, Silk Dresses, and a Really Heavy Trombone
On occasion, especially on major holidays, it can seem today as if Russian television is overrun with nostalgia – and the songs thereof. The scale...
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FARW: Exclamation Marks, Smiling Faces, and T-Shirt Philosophy
FARW are from the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk. Founded in the seventeenth century, Slaviansk would grow to become a center of two very contradictory...
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