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What Does “Credible Fear” Really Mean?
A simple legal question opens up philosophical depths.
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How Our Stories Won’t Save Us: Teaching Valeria Luiselli’s “Lost Children Archive”
What literature has to teach us about the wrenching human stories at the border.
The Man with the Gramophone: A Party Manifesto
Our Second April
V.M. Braganza uses the experiences of a year in quarantine with the words of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Watching “A Life on Our Planet,” or How I Ruined David Attenborough for Myself
Jerrine Tan ponders the colonialist and eco-fascistic messaging of David Attenborough's 2020 documentary.
On Borders and Belonging: Gabriela Garcia’s “Of Women and Salt”
A wrenching debut novel about the connections and disconnections between Latinx mothers and daughters.
The Maligned Gay Metropolis: On Glenn Frankel’s “Shooting Midnight Cowboy”
Sarah Fonseca looks at Glenn Frankel’s “Shooting Midnight Cowboy,” which tells the complicated, queer history of a legendary Hollywood film.
K-Pop Evolution: A Youtube Original Docuseries Traces the Origins of Korea's Prime Cultural Export
For this week's Korea Blog, Colin Marshall dives into recent documentation of Korea's pop culture phenomena.
The Texture of Awareness: On Pete Duval’s “The Deposition”
Pete Duval’s new story collection, “The Deposition,” is a necessary book for the depth of the questions it asks.
Familiar Strangers: On Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Whereabouts”
Jhumpa Lahiri’s self-translated Italian novel is a book Lahiri would never have written first in English.
Queer Girls in The Wilds: Refusing White Feminism's Settler Colonial Fantasy
Hannah Manshel and Margaret A. Miller explore the various colonial and anti-colonial valances of Amazon's The Wilds.
Language Is a Place: A Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri
The plurilingual author discusses her art, the magic of writers’ diaries, and the sacred task of translation.
On Democracy and Doris Lessing
Sarah Schulman’s “Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993”
Sarah Schulman joins Kate Wolf and Eric Newman to discuss her new book, “Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993.”
Blind Curve Ahead
Rachel Kushner rides a motorcycle close to the edge.
The Trauma of Partition: A Conversation with Anjali Enjeti
Anjali Enjeti discusses her new novel of family life and communal tragedy, “The Parted Earth.”
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