Ben Nadler

Jan 10, 2025 | therumpus.net | Ben Nadler |Joshua Keller

By Joshua Keller and Ben NadlerCollaborative Criticism is a Rumpus column that features critical work co-written or produced by two or more people. When we sit down to write a story, it’s hard not to hear the lyrics of an old punk song by X-Ray Spex hammering away in our heads: “I’m a cliché/ I’m a cliché/ I’m a cliché you’ve seen before.”[i] Just about every writer will recognize the sentiment—that the stories we tell are not in any way original. This concern is not new; in fact, nothing is.

Nov 13, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Gilcy Aquino |Franckie Alarcon |Ben Nadler |Peter Russella

Just in time for Thanksgiving menu planning: a list for the culinarily curious among us looking to crack open a visually stimulating read alongside a cold one at the end of the day.

Jan 16, 2024 | link.aps.org | Politecnico di Milano |Ben Nadler |Diego Berzi |Dalila Vescovi

We generalize kinetic theory of inelastic spheres to uniaxial, nonspherical grains by including the orientational tensor as a state variable. The theory has three phenomenological parameters, with one parameter to account for the dependency of the stresses on the orientation, which is exactly one for frictionless cylinders, and the other two parameters to predict the orientational tensor.

Jul 18, 2023 | jewishcurrents.org | Ben Nadler |Oksana Mironova

The tan cardstock handbill announces an upcoming event, to be held on November 2nd, 1919: Appearing in Brooklyn for the first time, the Ukrainian Workers Theater will perform a night of drama and music. The event description is printed in Ukrainian, but the vocabulary is simple enough to be deciphered 100 years later by O., a native Russian speaker who grew up with the Odessa-influenced vernacular of southern Brooklyn.

Jul 11, 2023 | firewireblog.com | Ben Nadler