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Mourning and Marginalia: Editing the Work of Christopher Chitty
Editors Max Fox and Madeline Lane-McKinley talk about working on "Sexual Hegemony," the recently published text by the late writer Christopher Chitty.
Madeline Lane-McKinley, Max FoxNov 26, 2020
- Gender & Sexuality
- Philosophy & Religion
What Should I Do with Such a Man?: On “Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture”
A new biography does the seemingly impossible: it casts new light on the much-studied founding father of Haiti.
Adolf AlzupharNov 26, 2020
Creating a Story with a Dead Body: An Interview with Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Corinne Manning talks to writer Nancy Jooyoun Kim about her debut novel, "The Last Story of Mina Lee."
Corinne ManningNov 25, 2020
- Fiction
When Hitchcock’s Camera Lies: An Interview with Dan Callahan
Ben Shields interviews author Dan Callahan about his latest book, “The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock.”
Ben ShieldsNov 25, 2020
- Film
Metabolic Survivors: On McKenzie Wark’s “Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century”
Imagining alternatives without imagining the escape, erasure, or end of capitalism.
Travis DiehlNov 25, 2020
- Philosophy & Religion
Another Look at India’s Books: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd’s “Why I Am Not a Hindu”
Saikat MajumdarNov 25, 2020
Speed Reading Sucks
Nevada Ryan is only asking us to slow down.
Nevada RyanNov 25, 2020
Abolition from Below: On the Underground Railroad to México
María Esther Hammack reviews “South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War” by Alice L. Baumgartner.
María Esther HammackNov 24, 2020
They Wanted to Bury Us: A Conversation with Andalusia Knoll Soloff
Andalusia Knoll Soloff reflects on the sixth anniversary of the Ayotzinapa forced disappearances.
Annie RosenthalNov 24, 2020
Bradbury Noir: The Crimes of a Science Fiction Master
Cullen Gallagher investigates “Killer, Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury.”
Nov 24, 2020
- Noir
- SF
“More Chekhov than Chekhov”: “The Seagull” on The Sims
Robyn JensenNov 24, 2020
A Castiglione of the Mind: An Interview with Amanda DeMarco
Madeleine LaRue talks with Amanda DeMarco, translator of Nathalie Léger’s latest novel "Exposition."
Madeleine LaRueNov 24, 2020
Wolfgang Ischinger on Trust, Truth, and Transparency
Nov 24, 2020
The Undying Half-Life of Yiddish
Two books explore the indelible imprint of Yiddish on modern politics and popular culture.
Marc CaplanNov 23, 2020
“This Constructed Self of Mine”: On the Narrative Possibilities of Racial Melancholia
Kim Hew-Low on the ways BIPOC writers assemble their stories.
Kim Hew-LowNov 23, 2020
Imagine the Swell of the Water: Reading “The White Album” in 2020
Violet AmesNov 23, 2020