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Bryan Washington on Fiction ‘Outside the Bounds of Trauma’

Bryan Washington on Fiction ‘Outside the Bounds of Trauma’ Bryan Washington on Fiction ‘Outside the Bounds of Trauma’

A conversation about writing emphatically about marginalized communities, Houston’s diversity of cuisines and peoples, Japanese literature, and more.

Nov 25, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Rosemarie Ho

Diane Cook’s Morality Tales for Our Climate Future

Diane Cook’s Morality Tales for Our Climate Future Diane Cook’s Morality Tales for Our Climate Future

Her debut novel, The New Wilderness, examines the dynamics between parent and child in a world beset by the bleakest of environmental scenarios.

Nov 24, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Zack Graham

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How to Lose Friends and Not Influence the Election Results How to Lose Friends and Not Influence the Election Results

More of the same, but worse. 

Nov 24, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow

Unforgetting: Confronting El Salvador’s—and My Family’s—Past

Unforgetting: Confronting El Salvador’s—and My Family’s—Past Unforgetting: Confronting El Salvador’s—and My Family’s—Past

Doing so helped me to understand not just the violent history of El Salvador, but also that of my country of birth, the United States.

Nov 24, 2020 / Feature / Roberto Lovato

The Liberal Establishment Is ‘a Stranger to Self-Examination’

The Liberal Establishment Is ‘a Stranger to Self-Examination’ The Liberal Establishment Is ‘a Stranger to Self-Examination’

A conversation with Pankaj Mishra about Biden’s closer-than-expected victory, the sterile state of mainstream intellectual culture, and his new book Bland Fanatics.

Nov 23, 2020 / Q&A / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

Good Trouble

Good Trouble Good Trouble

Ordinary people, extraordinary courage.

Nov 21, 2020 / OppArt / Sylvia Hernández

Annie Ernaux’s Memoirs Ask a Radical Question

Annie Ernaux’s Memoirs Ask a Radical Question Annie Ernaux’s Memoirs Ask a Radical Question

How can one life be used to remember the collective pain of a generation’s political and cultural upheaval? 

Nov 19, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Audrey Wollen

Why the Left Should Ally With Small Business

Why the Left Should Ally With Small Business Why the Left Should Ally With Small Business

It will strengthen labor and help fight the increasing concentration of corporate power.

Nov 18, 2020 / Feature / Stacy Mitchell and Susan R. Holmberg

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In a Parallel Universe, Trump Accepts Loss In a Parallel Universe, Trump Accepts Loss

At least we can dream of an easy election.

Nov 17, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow

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Letters From the November 11/December 7, 2020, Issue Letters From the November 11/December 7, 2020, Issue

Hofstadter’s legacy…

Nov 17, 2020 / Our Readers and Jeet Heer

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