Stephen F. Eisenman

Counterfactuals are back in fashion. The election of Donald Trump catapulted sales of Philip Roth’s novel The Plot Against America (2004), which describes what might have occurred if Charles Lindbergh, running on his anti-Semitic “America First” platform, had won the presidency in 1940 instead of Roosevelt. .. Read more

Subcultures, countercultures, unconventional cultures, outsider cultures, and liminal cultures all exist within the policed domain of capitalist culture. .. Read more

Far from an alchemist who spun magic from dross, Gauguin was a materialist who embraced the terrestrial. The women in his pictures, with their heavy limbs and big feet, are decidedly earthbound. .. Read more