Cabinet #49 – Death

Columns

• Colors / Teal
  Mary Walling Blackburn
  Class, warfare
• Legend / Bouvier Carnage
  Wayne Koestenbaum
  Transfixing the porch-girl gaze
• Ingestion / Battling Over Barrels
  William Deringer
  The fiscal and epistemic politics of beer
• Leftovers / Cephalophoric Reason
  Eigil Zu Tage-Ravn
  Head cases

Main

• Montana Monadology
  Justin E. H. Smith
  Louis Riel in exile
• Dissertation on Monads
  Louis Riel
  What is there? There is God. What else is there?
• Saving Face
  Jon Calame
  Into the canny valley with the emoticon
• Artist Project / Hidden Mother
  Laura Larson
• The Jerusalem Labyrinth
  George Prochnik
  Lose yourself
• Monster Wreck
  Will Wiles
  The Crash at Crush
• Artist Project / Float
  Oliver Wasow
• The Science of Things That Aren’t So
  George Pendle
  Irving Langmuir and the symptoms of pathological science
• There She Goes
  Julia Sherman
  The 1968 Miss America pageant reconsidered
• Forensic Topology
  Geoff Manaugh
  The bank burglar as urban planner

Death

• The Town Where the Dead Live
  Christopher Turner
  Lily Dale and the rise and fall of spiritualism
• Mode of Death
  Leland de la Durantaye
  Transient beauty
• Dialogue Between Fashion and Death
  Giacomo Leopardi
  A sisterly conversation
• Sweet Kiss of Death
  Mats Bigert
  Swedish funeral candy
• We Shall Not All Sleep
  Catherine Hansen
  The life-and-death relationship of Gherasim Luca and Gellu Naum
• Skin Book
  Deborah Lutz
  The body and the page
• The Metachrotic Swan Song
  D. Graham Burnett
  The polychromatic radiance of the dying dolphinfish
• Where No Trickery Abounds
  Jonathan Allen
  The Broken Wand Service for deceased magicians

And

• Bookmark / Loop (0–Now Ruler and Now–End Ruler)
  Cevdet Erek
• Postcard / My Son with His Great-Grandfather, 3/13/2011, 2:52 PM Japan Standard Time
  Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock