All Essays
An Excerpt from “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now”
Girshriela Green felt a weight lift from her shoulders when she founded Respect the Bump, an advocacy group for pregnant Walmart workers.
Popular Feminism: Structural Rage
Sarah Banet-Weiser's second installment of her bi-monthly column that explores some of the different cultural facets of popular feminism.
Obsessions: Quiet Car Justice in the Age of Trump
Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body, Part V
Alex Cuff engages with the Poetry Coalition’s 2018 initiative, “Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body.”
Breathing Life into Language: The Collaborations of Christina MacSweeney
Nathan Scott McNamara talks to translator Christina MacSweeney about her work with Valeria Luiselli, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, and Daniel Saldaña París.
Their Policy Is to Eliminate Us
A Myanmar senator from the Lisu Tribe speaks freely about politics and power.
Pasadena Ode
Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body, Part IV: Private Time Machine
Chia-Lun Chang engages with the Poetry Coalition’s 2018 initiative, “Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body.”
Obsessions: Breakfast
“The Genius to Glue Them Together”: On René Girard and His Ideas
An excerpt from Cynthia L. Haven’s “Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard,” which will appear from Michigan State University Press on April 1.
“Women with the Gun”: American Women Journalists and the Women’s Battalion of Death
Angela Shpolberg on Maria Bochkareva and the Women’s Battalion of Death, as seen through the eyes of American women journalists.
How I Finally Learned Self-Love in a Post-Nuclear World
Schrödinger’s Cat
Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body, Part III: Dreaming and Loving Through Poetry and the Body
Cynthia Manick engages with the Poetry Coalition’s 2018 initiative, “Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body.”
The Magic — Floating — Mountain: Notes on an Alaskan Cruise
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