Brett Beasley is a staff writer for The Curator and a doctoral candidate in English Literature at Loyola University Chicago. Follow him on twitter <a href="http:www.twitter.com/brett_beasley">@Brett_B
When billionaire hedge fund manager Steven Cohen came under scrutiny in an
insider trading scandal this summer, his lawyers provided a novel defense: they
claimed that although he received an email that contained
The sky above Stonehenge was two-tone with a bizarre, crinkled texture. Sharp
slivers of grey flowed in curves and wisps and disappeared into the
eggshell-colored background. The taupe rocks below were flecked with
It all happens in the space of a tenth of a second: your zygomatic major muscle
engages and exposes your teeth, fifteen muscles in your face contract, your
epiglottis begins to obscure your
Although he was born frail and sickly, in 42 years he left behind a bafflingly
insightful and beautiful body of work. His writings appeared under the names of
nearly a dozen pseudonyms. He
Every day at 7:15AM my wife and I enter the red line station at the corner of
Sheridan Road and Loyola Avenue. We are part of a steady stream of commuters
that