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What I Learned From the Women in Detroit What I Learned From the Women in Detroit
In Anita Hill’s new book, she recalls a pivotal moment in her work speaking about women's empowerment at a shelter in Detroit.
Sep 28, 2021 / Anita Hill
The Quiet Power of Everyday Resistance The Quiet Power of Everyday Resistance
Scholar Roger Mac Ginty’s Everyday Peace explores how acts of individual solidarity or noncompliance are vital in forging conciliation amid war and violence.
Sep 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Francis Wade
SUPER-HUMAN SUPER-HUMAN
Hell, I know my superpower! I stare back at the solo sun & think, I could take you down, right to the cool core if my mother asked it of me, or if I thought my father would wri…
Is There a Better Way to Tell the Story of Nonhuman Life? Is There a Better Way to Tell the Story of Nonhuman Life?
Thalia Field’s Personhood challenges us to examine how human language has made it harder to care for the natural world.
Sep 23, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Vorona Cote
December 3, 1975 December 3, 1975
a golden shovel My mother wakes early to go to church. Dawn redux. Her áo dài is Virgin Mary blue. Her hair is still long, reflecting light. A border control officer filters throug…
Sep 23, 2021 / Poems / Cathy Linh Che
Dana Spiotta’s Political Fiction Dana Spiotta’s Political Fiction
In her new novel, Wayward, Spiotta offers an intricate portrait of how one woman experienced the uncertain days and months after Trump’s election.
Sep 22, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Katie Fitzpatrick
Russia’s War Against the Cold Russia’s War Against the Cold
A new history considers how the struggle with Siberia’s permafrost redefined the country.
Sep 21, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson
Republicans Urge Defiance of Biden Mandates Republicans Urge Defiance of Biden Mandates
Republicans say don’t comply When government tries to deny The freedom you’ve got To not take the shot, No matter how many folks die.
Sep 21, 2021 / Column / Calvin Trillin
David Graeber and David Wengrow’s Anarchist History of Humanity David Graeber and David Wengrow’s Anarchist History of Humanity
In The Dawn of Everything, Graeber and Wengrow offer a sweeping and ambitious exploration of life without the state.
Sep 20, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Immerwahr
Did Occupy Wall Street Make a Difference? Did Occupy Wall Street Make a Difference?
Flash in the pan or the prelude to political organizing as we know it today?
Sep 17, 2021 / Feature / Ruth Milkman, Stephanie Luce, and Penny Lewis