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Galdona Ghoasts (2020) by Hannah Kim Varamini; Spring Fish (2020) by Liz Ahn; glass jump rope (2020) by Laub; A One Act Play (2020) by Hannah Lee and Jordan Ruffin. All images courtesy of Visitor Welcome Center.

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The Butch Lesbian Sci-Fi Aesthetic: A Conversation With Tamsyn Muir

Mikaella Clements

Mikaella Clements speaks with Tamsyn Muir about her Locked Tomb trilogy, lesbian romance, forging new directions in sci-fi, and finding her Kiwi voice...

Ghostly Presences in Addis Ababa: A Conversation with Maaza Mengiste

An interview with Maaza Mengiste, editor of “Addis Ababa Noir.”...

Evolution Wars: The Saga Continues

Jessica Riskin offers a revisionist history of evolutionary biology....

Riding the Wave: The Steady Rise of Korean Manhwa

DW McKinney surveys the latest major works of manhwa to be published in the United States, including “Grass,” “Uncomfortably Happily,” and “Bad Friends.”...

Denizens of Futures That Failed to Take: On M. John Harrison’s “The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again”

Nina Allan reviews “The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again,” the latest novel from M. John Harrison....

A Grim Purgatory: On Greg Jenner’s History of Celebrity

Aida Amoako considers celebrity through Greg Jenner’s history of fame, “Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen.”...

When Government Disappears: On Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling’s “A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear”

When libertarians take over a New England town and get rid of regulations, the bears move in and wreak havoc....

Wandering Ways

Andrew Schenker

Toward a discursive, essayistic mode of lecturing....

POLITICS, HISTORY

Sanctuary Unmasked: The First Time Los Angeles (Sort of) Became a City of Refuge

Paul A. Kramer - October 25, 2020

The story of Los Angeles’s pathbreaking — and fragile — declaration of “sanctuary city” status in 1985....

AROUND THE WORLD, FICTION

A Family Saga for the Anthropocene: On Zsuzsa Selyem’s “It’s Raining in Moscow”

Diána Vonnák - October 25, 2020

The story of a posthuman Romanian farmer, told by a cat, a blackbird, a bedbug, and a hemlock tree....

Anti-Extremism Versus Anti-Fascism

Peter Berard - October 25, 2020

Two new books lay out the differences between anti-extremism and anti-fascism....

Dispatches from an Overheated World: On “Tales of Two Planets”

Alan Levinovitz - October 25, 2020

An anthology about climate change has a focus on sewage and trash....

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Sanctuary Unmasked: The First Time Los Angeles (Sort of) Became a City of Refuge

The story of Los Angeles’s pathbreaking — and fragile — declaration of “sanctuary city” status in 1985....

AROUND THE WORLD, FICTION

A Family Saga for the Anthropocene: On Zsuzsa Selyem’s “It’s Raining in Moscow”

Diána Vonnák - October 25, 2020

The story of a posthuman Romanian farmer, told by a cat, a blackbird, a bedbug, and a hemlock tree....

Anti-Extremism Versus Anti-Fascism

Peter Berard - October 25, 2020

Two new books lay out the differences between anti-extremism and anti-fascism....

Dispatches from an Overheated World: On “Tales of Two Planets”

Alan Levinovitz - October 25, 2020

An anthology about climate change has a focus on sewage and trash....

POLITICS, HISTORY, GENDER & SEXUALITY

On the Vote: Emma Goldman and Women’s Suffrage

Angela Shpolberg

On the centennial of the 19th Amendment, Emma Goldman reminds us that the vote is not a panacea....

Denizens of Futures That Failed to Take: On M. John Harrison’s “The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again”

Nina Allan - October 24, 2020

Nina Allan reviews “The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again,” the latest novel from M. John Harrison....

AROUND THE WORLD, COMICS

Riding the Wave: The Steady Rise of Korean Manhwa

DW McKinney - October 24, 2020

DW McKinney surveys the latest major works of manhwa to be published in the United States, including “Grass,” “Uncomfortably Happily,” and “Bad Friends.”...

YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Where Are the Allies for Asian American Kids?

Karen Fang - October 24, 2020

Reckoning with the legacies of racism requires confronting the unique perils faced by ethnic Asian persons and communities....

Claude McKay in Our Time: A Conversation with Gary Holcomb and William J. Maxwell on “Romance in Marseille”

Gary Edward Holcomb and William J. Maxwell on the publication of Claude McKay’s “Romance in Marseille.”...

In a Lonely Place: On “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” and “Love, Guaranteed”

Annie Berke - October 23, 2020

Annie Berke writes about how two recent Netflix original films thematize loneliness and our romance with screens under quarantine....

The Most Rampant Political Mischief Right Now: Talking to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Andy Fitch - October 23, 2020

Andy Fitch talks with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse about undoing the corruption in American politics and his book "Captured."...

Visions of Cash

Drew Bratcher - October 23, 2020

Growing up with the man in black....

ART & ARCHITECTURE

Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Rahel Aima on the Rallying Cries of 2009

In the newest installation of Art Matters Now, Rahel Aima looks back on Occupy and the rallying cries of 2009....

An Enduring Relationship with Forms: A Conversation with Nancy Naomi Carlson

Lois P. Jones - October 22, 2020

Nancy Naomi Carlson discusses the inspirations behind her latest poetry collection, “An Infusion of Violets.”...

FOOD & DRINK, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Dishing: On John Birdsall’s “The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard”

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft - October 22, 2020

An engaging new biography of the pioneer of American cuisine....

ART & ARCHITECTURE, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, HISTORY

Making Art Do Work

Peter Sachs Collopy - October 22, 2020

Reviewing W. Patrick McCray’s “Making Art Work,” Peter Sachs Collopy argues it can be read as a history of how art became managerial in the 1960s and ’70s...

SF, GENDER & SEXUALITY

The Butch Lesbian Sci-Fi Aesthetic: A Conversation With Tamsyn Muir

Mikaella Clements

Mikaella Clements speaks with Tamsyn Muir about her Locked Tomb trilogy, lesbian romance, forging new directions in sci-fi, and finding her Kiwi voice...

HISTORY, CULTURAL STUDIES

A Grim Purgatory: On Greg Jenner’s History of Celebrity

Aida Amoako - October 21, 2020

Aida Amoako considers celebrity through Greg Jenner’s history of fame, “Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen.”...

When Government Disappears: On Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling’s “A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear”

Amanda Gokee - October 21, 2020

When libertarians take over a New England town and get rid of regulations, the bears move in and wreak havoc....

A Black Lives Matter Movement in Small-Town Ohio: A Conversation with Shawn Captain

The great-grandson of protestors from the first Civil Rights movement now takes to the streets himself....

Wandering Ways

Andrew Schenker - October 20, 2020

Toward a discursive, essayistic mode of lecturing....

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, HISTORY

Evolution Wars: The Saga Continues

Jessica Riskin - October 20, 2020

Jessica Riskin offers a revisionist history of evolutionary biology....

AROUND THE WORLD, NOIR

Ghostly Presences in Addis Ababa: A Conversation with Maaza Mengiste

An interview with Maaza Mengiste, editor of “Addis Ababa Noir.”...

PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

There’s Something About These Dolphins

Patrick House - October 19, 2020

Patrick House on the difference between reality and virtual reality, and what it means for identity, memory, autobiography, and therapy....

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Visitor Welcome Center presents No More Land West, a series of exhibitions by 40 artists at Arm Gallery, courtesy of John Burtle. As the gallery (gently) seeks a new and accessible location as well as an expansive and inclusive model from which to operate, VWC is continuing 2020’s programming on the left arm of Burtle. After five years on the corner of Koreatown’s 7th and Westmoreland, and in the midst of the world taking a break from each others’ company, No More Land West asks each artist to take up humility and work small for a moment, with the hopes of when this is all over, each piece and all of us can be together in the same room, once again.

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