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Rescued from the Footnotes of History: Lal Bihari Sharma’s “Holi Songs of Demerara”
A rare songbook from British Guiana explores the experience of colonial indenture.
All Essays
Yet Another Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name
Meg Murry’s Glasses
Sarah Mesle on how Madeleine L’Engle’s and Ava DuVernay’s "A Wrinkle in Time" diverge around their contrasting ethics of the visual.
Lies, Camera, Action
Mychal Denzel Smith on the 25th Anniversary of “Menace II Society.”
Period Piece of the Present
Bruce Robbins on Raoul Peck's "The Young Karl Marx" and how it relates to the Global South.
The Last Journey of Karl Marx
Jürgen Neffe on the last journey of Karl Marx, translated by Shelley Frisch.
Marx in Bizarro World
The dominant image of Marx that one is confronted with today is not simply distorted but inverted. Jason Read on Marx in Bizarro World.
I Am Not a Marxist
Ana Stankovic on the un-tragic wrongness of Marx’s thought.
Marx’s Dyslexia
“How should Marx be read today? Or, rather, which Marx do we need to read?” Agon Hamza on “Marx’s Dyslexia.”
Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body, Part I: To Reimagine Healing
Ricardo Hernandez engages with the Poetry Coalition’s 2018 initiative, “Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body.”
Muscular Sanity: The Language of Pain in Literature
Emily Wells on the language of pain in literature.
The Beautiful Nobody
Listeners find community and authenticity in the podcast “Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People,” where the one rule is that callers remain anonymous.
That Somber City: In Search of Saul Bellow’s Montréal
On Saul Bellow and the city of his early childhood.
The Daddy Dialectic
Dreams and their ilk (fantasy, literature, language) are a zone of unsurrender. Struggle’s companion and consolation. Consolations don’t have to be gentle.
Solarpunk: Against a Shitty Future
We need new stories for uncertain times. Is Solarpunk what we’ve been waiting for?
Dwelling in the Upside Down: On “Stranger Things 2”
"Stranger Things 2" feels less like a tribute to old films, less nostalgic, and more a cautionary historical fiction focused sharply on the near future.
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