Aaron Bady

@zunguzungu

is a writer in Oakland.

The Trap of Climate Optimism

The Trap of Climate Optimism The Trap of Climate Optimism

Dan Sherrell’s Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World shows us a new way to tell the story of how we might cope and survive a future of catastrophe.

Dec 23, 2021 / Q&A / Aaron Bady

Jedediah Purdy Has an Idea That Could Save Us From Capitalism and the Climate Crisis

Jedediah Purdy Has an Idea That Could Save Us From Capitalism and the Climate Crisis Jedediah Purdy Has an Idea That Could Save Us From Capitalism and the Climate Crisis

We talked to the lawyer, theorist, and critic about his new book This Land Is Our Land, his concept of a moral political economy, and the legacies of Bush and Obama.

Oct 16, 2019 / Q&A / Aaron Bady

How the US Exported Its Border Around the World

How the US Exported Its Border Around the World How the US Exported Its Border Around the World

Todd Miller’s new book examines the massive industrial complex that sustains and influences the lines that divide the globe.

Aug 20, 2019 / Aaron Bady

Subverting the Western: A Conversation With Hernan Diaz

Subverting the Western: A Conversation With Hernan Diaz Subverting the Western: A Conversation With Hernan Diaz

The author of In the Distance discusses foreignness, his theory of genre, and what it means to do research for a novel.

Nov 20, 2017 / Q&A / Aaron Bady

Lina Meruane

Blindness and Vision Blindness and Vision

In Lina Meruane’s Seeing Red, both the reader and the protagonist learn to see blindness.

Jun 30, 2016 / Aaron Bady

Carmen Boullosa

The Need of the Forgotten The Need of the Forgotten

The novelist and poet Carmen Boullosa talks about her obsession with lost stories and found textual objects, and how rereading gives books new faces.

Apr 8, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Bady

Border Characters

Border Characters Border Characters

The Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera talks about the first English translation of one of his novels, the Mexica afterlife, and Dante.

Dec 2, 2015 / Aaron Bady

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