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Interview
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“Our Guns Make the Violence That People Are Fleeing”: Ieva Jusionyte on Guns & Violence in Mexico
“I was already there, and I was already an ethnographer. I was interested in borders as sites of state violence. I became very curious and I thought I would like to follow the guns south.”
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“She Seems So Normal to Me”: Cassandra Neyenesch on Writing a Woman on the Verge
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Adventures Newly Narrated: Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald’s Lost Adventure
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“If a Woman Commanded Fire”: Talking Historical Stoves and Affordable Energy with Joyce Chaplin
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“Melodrama with a Modern Sensibility”: A Conversation with Megan Cummins
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Public Thinker: Infrastructure Tells Us That We Need One Another
“Seeing infrastructural systems for what they are requires us to understand them as the product of massive collective investment and to reflect on the value of that.”
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Public Thinker: Jayson M. Porter on Healing in Public
“I feel blessed to live so close to a country that’s had a revolution inform how people struggle for land around the world.”
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“The Unique Magic That Happens When Two People Come Together”: Allison Pugh on Building a Society of Connection
“What we are doing by mechanizing encounters is bleeding out the unique and rather mysterious social outcome.”
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What Do the PDFs Say about This?: Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Insley Hershinow
“What are the systems of power in this fictional context andthe story world I’m making? What are the stakes? What are the values?”
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Fallout as a Process: Ryo Morimoto on Fukushima
“That’s what my book is really trying to get at: What are the things that we have missed as a result of confronting our own fear of the invisible?”
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Interpret or Judge?: John Guillory on the Future of Literary Criticism
“‘Professing criticism’ is a contradiction and maybe even an impossibility. I’d like to hope that it’s not, that it’s just an innovation, historically.”
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“The Joke’s Ultimately on Me”: “Diabetic of Enlightenment” on Academic Twitter
When it comes to academia, we live in a moment of heightened contradictions. And yet, graduate students and junior professors are frequently told we mustn’t rock the boat even as it sinks farther and farther into the neoliberal abyss. The weight of this disconnect was bound to break eventually. Twitter, now regrettably known as X,…
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“I’ve Embraced the Outsider Status”: A Conversation with Francisco Goldman
“That reality, such suffering, and violence, so much evil, was just shattering. Of course I witnessed so much courage too, and goodness, much of it doomed.”
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“A Theory of America”: Mythmaking with Richard Slotkin
“I was always working on a theory of America.”
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“Costs on All Sides”: Annie Dorsen on “Prometheus Firebringer”
“Technology creates the potential for conflict from the very start.”
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“The Past Survives in the Telling”: Eight Questions for Esther Kinsky
“I never look for inspiration when I embark on a project. My writing evolves from something I’ve seen, heard outside—never from reading.”
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Tenuous Privileges, Tenuous Power
In “The Vice President’s Black Wife,” Amrita Myers paints freedom as a process in which Black women used the tools available to them to secure rights and privileges within a slave society.
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Public Thinker: Gabriel Rosenberg on Industrial Agriculture’s “Brutal, Violent Heteronormativity”
“Much of the anxiety around conversations about meat is a more fundamental horror that we lack a moral language to adequately describe.”
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“Their Lives Go On beyond the Book”: A Conversation with Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
“It’s wonderful to be haunted by characters; because they aren’t ‘real,’ they can do or say anything.”
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“2020 Isn’t Over”: Eric Klinenberg on Pandemics, Politics, and Solidarity
“What we needed was wisdom and clarity. What we got was chaos and confusion.”
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“Living in and as Refusal”: Eric Stanley on Anti-Trans/Queer Violence
“While ungovernability takes many paths, here it approximates living in and as refusal.”
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Life inside the Fiction Factory: Dan Sinykin on Conglomerate Publishing
“An author’s photo is more appealing to the consumer than the publisher’s colophon.”
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“Finding Other Ways to Flow”: The Once and Future Le Guin
“There’s something very solitary in her writing as well. I almost think of it as solitary solidarity.”
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“Ideological Sci-Fi”: A Conversation with Julius Taranto
“When to form political certainties, and when to take political action, are among the central questions the book explores.”
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“Gestures of Refusal”: A Conversation with Sarah Bernstein and Daisy Lafarge
“Why do we want our characters to be innocent, as if we are innocent ourselves?”
