Archive

Their Understanding of Who We Are: Talking to Dipayan Ghosh
Andy Fitch interviews Dipayan Ghosh about what tech companies actually do with the data they collect and his book "Terms of Disservice."
Andy FitchJun 19, 2020
DACA Ruling Makes America Stronger
Marcelo Suárez-OrozcoJun 18, 2020
Time Machine
Poet and seminal Los Angeles publisher Aleida Rodríguez travels back in time, and always takes the scenic route.
Aleida RodríguezJun 18, 2020
- Nonfiction
Racial Inequality in Publishing and #BlackPublishingPower
Elias WondimuJun 18, 2020
Owning the Asphalt
Joseph Giovannini praises the protestors who took back the streets from the Landlord-in-Chief.
Joseph GiovanniniJun 18, 2020
- Politics
The Act of Seeing
Breanna Chia thinks about the disservice of dodges and well-meaning, noncommittal sympathies in the context of the murder of James Scurlock.
Breanna ChiaJun 18, 2020
Breaking the World So It Can Bud Again: On Ellen Bass’s “Indigo”
Meryl Natchez considers “Indigo” by Ellen Bass.
Meryl NatchezJun 17, 2020
- Poetry
I Hate To See Them Die Unnecessarily
William D. LopezJun 17, 2020
Dreaming Freely: On the Ecstatic Fictions of Can Xue
Bailey Trela considers “I Live in the Slums,” the recently translated short story collection by Can Xue.
Bailey TrelaJun 17, 2020
- Around the World
- Fiction
Beware of Old Statues
Elizabeth Archibald thinks about the destruction and vengeance of statues.
Elizabeth ArchibaldJun 17, 2020
There Is Air There: On Rosalie Knecht’s Vera Kelly Novels
Lydia Perović investigates “Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery” by Rosalie Knecht.
Lydia PerovićJun 16, 2020
- Noir
Our Testament
A 1983 movie about nuclear war has much to say about motherhood, family, and domestic life.
Kyle Raymond FitzpatrickJun 16, 2020
- Film
- Nonfiction
One Voice in a Great Chorus: An Interview with Rebecca Solnit
Meredith Maran talks to writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit about erasure, voicelessness, and her memoir “Recollections of My Nonexistence.”
Meredith MaranJun 15, 2020
- Gender & Sexuality
- Memoir & Essay
The Road from Montenegro
Olja Knezevic writes about returning to Podgorica.
Olja KnezevicJun 15, 2020
A Quest for a Mother: The Infinite Pursuit of Possibility in Zaina Arafat’s “You Exist Too Much”
Sarah Mills considers "You Exist Too Much," the debut novel from Zaina Arafat.
Sarah MillsJun 15, 2020
- Fiction
Two Decades of Futility: On Erik Edstrom’s “Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War”
A soldier’s journey through Afghanistan reveals dismal truths about the United States.
Sally McGraneJun 14, 2020
- Memoir & Essay
- Politics