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Literature & Culture, Race

Janelle Monáe for President

What Afrofuturism can teach us about surviving Trump.

Christopher Lebron

Class & Inequality, Literature & Culture

Left Behind by Korea’s Success

Hwang Sok-yong’s new novel sounds a warning about the pitfalls of Korean reunification.

John Feffer

Poetry

Dispatch in Two Parts: The Arab Body Writes Itself In

Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.

Marwa Helal

Poetry

Instructions for Erasure

Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.

Randa Jarrar

Poetry

Fragments of a Song

Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Poetry

Dispatch from the Land of Erasure (I)

Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.

Philip Metres

Poetry

A Real American

Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.

Farid Matuk

Poetry

Cartographies of Wind

Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.

George Abraham

Literature & Culture

Masters and Servants

Neel Mukherjee is part of a new generation of Indian writers dissecting postcolonialism’s failed promise of a classless society.

Gaiutra Bahadur

Politics

Is There Such a Thing as Truth?

Noam Chomsky and Hilary Putnam on how language connects us to the world.

Errol Morris

Literature & Culture

Haneke and the Technology of Intimacy

‘Happy End’ is the culmination of Haneke’s obsession with how technology mediates our desires.

Francey Russell

Poetry

Manacled to a Whelm

Jorie Graham’s Fast marks the fraught presence of an environmentally inclined writer whose most immediate environment, the body, confronts a foreclosed future.

Cecily Parks

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