Ellis Calvin
Articles by Ellis Calvin:
The March of Racial Progress in Malaysia
in Issue 4 | The Progress of Memory (May 2011)progress is the blurring of lines - the colonial authorities’ hands-off immigration policy - peranakan - four racial categories - a segregated Malaya - a jungle war - The Malay Dilemma - a hardy race - unite the country into a « Malaysian race » - a universal idea of racial progress
The Natural City
in Issue 3 | Nature and Its Enemies (Apr 2011)« I have struck a city—a real city—and they call it Chicago » - Garden Cities of To-morrow - debtors’ prisons and public parks - « this unholy, unnatural separation » - a city in a vacuum - «an expensive housing scheme for public servants» - « ruin porn » star - collapsing concert halls - Detroit’s silver bullet - « the real source of wealth »
Articles illustrated by Ellis Calvin:
in Issue 42 | More Government (Jul 2014)
Nuevo Usme, Bogotá. Photo by Ellis Calvin
in Issue 41 | Infamy (Jun 2014)
in Issue 32 | Small Wars (Sep 2013)
Illustration by Ellis Calvin
in Issue 29 | Faces and Masks (Jun 2013)
Illustration by Ellis Calvin
in Issue 28 | Trauma and Laughter (May 2013)
“Funny Story” by Ellis Calvin
Taste and Swallow
in Issue 24 | Compulsion (Jan 2013)punctual folks in the audience are starting to get nervous here - the satisfyingly satisfiable short-term goal of acquiring and consuming some soft sugary pastry of sufficient mass and fluff and density - the reflex that makes me speak - distracted from the sensual world by colorless thoughts
The March of Racial Progress in Malaysia
in Issue 4 | The Progress of Memory (May 2011)progress is the blurring of lines - the colonial authorities’ hands-off immigration policy - peranakan - four racial categories - a segregated Malaya - a jungle war - The Malay Dilemma - a hardy race - unite the country into a « Malaysian race » - a universal idea of racial progress
The Natural City
in Issue 3 | Nature and Its Enemies (Apr 2011)« I have struck a city—a real city—and they call it Chicago » - Garden Cities of To-morrow - debtors’ prisons and public parks - « this unholy, unnatural separation » - a city in a vacuum - «an expensive housing scheme for public servants» - « ruin porn » star - collapsing concert halls - Detroit’s silver bullet - « the real source of wealth »