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Trump’s Assault on Asylum: An Opportunity to Reflect on US Humanitarian Values

Sara Campos considers “The End of Asylum” by Andrew Schoenholtz, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, and Philip G. Schrag....

Jul 28

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SARA CAMPOS

LAW

Quarterly Journal: No 30, Trending Issue

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Can Literature Teach Us How to Die?: A Conversation Between Ilan Stavans and Priyanka Champaneri

What can literature teach us about our inevitable trip to “the undiscovered country”?...

Jul 27

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PRIYANKA CHAMPANERI, ILAN STAVANS

By Morning Light: On Mark Jarman’s “Dailiness: Essays on Poetry”

Peggy Ellsberg finds transformative wisdom in Mark Jarman’s “Dailiness: Essays on Poetry.”...

Jul 27

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PEGGY ELLSBERG

Community as Protagonist: Talking with Virginie Despentes

In Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutext Trilogy, the hero is the posse....

Jul 27

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NINA HERZOG

Trying to Photograph a Hummingbird: Essays upon Essays

A new collection of methodical studies of a highly unmethodical form....

Jul 27

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ROBERT MINTO

Lost Weekend

Light 48b (2021) by Kersti Jan Werdal, lightjet C-Print on glossy paper 5 x 7 inches, edition 1 of 1; UNTITLED (CAFÉ) 1 by Moyra Davey, C-Print, tape, postage, ink 12 x 18 inches. Image courtesy Yvon Lambert, Paris. Photo by Woosung Sohn.

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Uneasy Temporariness: Rosecrans Baldwin’s Los Angeles

“Everything Now” captures Los Angeles’s fundamental ambiguity, its magnetic swirl of beauty and darkness....

CASEY SCHWARTZ

NONFICTION

The Politics of Humane Violence

Modern warfare turns civilians into human shields....

CRAIG JONES

POLITICS

“He Soars So Incredibly High”: A Conversation about Robert Walser with Susan Bernofsky

Veronica Esposito speaks to Susan Bernofsky, author of the long-awaited biography of Robert Walser, “Clairvoyant of the Small.”...

VERONICA ESPOSITO

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Octavia Butler and the Pimply, Pompous Publisher

How my 14-year-old self commissioned sci-fi writer Octavia Butler in 1979 to write an essay that still resonates today: “Lost Races of Science Fiction.”...