Short Takes

Of Poetry, Politics, and Pandemics
Maxim D. ShrayerOct 30, 2020
Our Future Rests with the Children of Immigrants
Marcelo Suárez-OrozcoOct 28, 2020
On the Struggle for Indigenous Self-Determination in the Republic of Artsakh
Mashinka Firunts HakopianOct 25, 2020
Cocooning, Then and Now
David EhrensteinOct 24, 2020
A Century and a Half of Ivan Bunin
Maxim D. ShrayerOct 20, 2020
Not “The Plague” but “Notes from Underground”
Randy RosenthalOct 17, 2020
A Call for Lasting Peace in Nagorno-Karabakh
Amitav Ghosh, Cornel West, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Harold Aram Veeser, Judith Herman, Noam Chomsky, Seyla Benhabib, Shahidul Alam, Tariq Ali, Viken BerberianOct 16, 2020
Rilke in LA: On Neeli Cherkovski’s “Hang on to the Yangtze River”
Paul VangelistiOct 16, 2020
Notes on Postcards
Jennifer CroftOct 11, 2020
Another Look at India’s Books: P. Lal’s “Calcutta: A Long Poem”
Saikat MajumdarOct 7, 2020
Bukvar
Bryan KaretnykOct 3, 2020
Soulful Spaces: On Maw Shein Win’s “Storage Unit for the Spirit House”
Eve WoodOct 1, 2020
America Needs Superheroes
Gary D. RhodesSep 18, 2020
Guilt Lit
Sumana RoySep 9, 2020
Thinking about “the Self” (ish) in the Time of Pandemic
Lisa Russ SpaarSep 8, 2020
An Immodest Proposal
Samuel WeberSep 7, 2020