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“Once It Is Written, It Is Forgotten”: Kate Zambreno on Hervé ...
“So I must begin again, when I only have months left to write it.”
Shoptalk: Overheard at ASA and ASTR 2022
In this special mega edition of Shoptalk, guess which performative utterance was said at which conference.
“We Plot to Undo the World”
Artist Simone Leigh curated a series of intellectual sermons directed by Black women who grieved, strategized, loved, and yearned for community.
Public Picks 2022
What were the books of 2022 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us?
Brazil’s Malaise
A whiff of the apocalyptic surrounds the compounding crises currently afflicting Brazil. A surge in violent crime unfolds alongside a new and dangerous illness; a financial crisis begets a political ...
Rio, Capital of Disaster Capitalism
The Olympic rings loom large over Rio de Janeiro. Seven years after the city won its bid to host the games, the impending two-week extravaganza has swept changes across the Marvelous City, as Rio is ...
Global Cities and Their Discontents: Saskia Sassen and Teresa ...
In a moment in which the populist right wing is ascendant globally, cities can serve as beacons of hope ...
Security Laboratories
In recent years, feminist movements in Egypt have negotiated with gendered logics of governance oriented around the imperative to protect women from sexual harassment. Meanwhile, in Brazil, activists ...