The Turmoil of Fearful Anticipation The Turmoil of Fearful Anticipation
Many of the stories in Dino Buzzati’s Catastrophe are more concerned with paranoia and fear than with dramatic repercussions.
May 9, 2018 / Bradley Babendir
The Magic of Denis Johnson The Magic of Denis Johnson
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden isn't exactly a sequel to Jesus’ Son, but it has the same breezy, epiphanic quality.
May 9, 2018 / Books & the Arts / J. Robert Lennon
Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s
They weren’t friends, and they weren’t all of the same generation, but they all shared a similar view of how we should relate to nature.
May 9, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bill McKibben
No Barbed Wire, No Guard Towers No Barbed Wire, No Guard Towers
The photographic legacy of the WWII-era detainment of Japanese Americans is itself a product of historical forces.
May 4, 2018 / Madeleine Han
Can Yanis Varoufakis Save Europe? Can Yanis Varoufakis Save Europe?
At a moment when many on the right and left have abandoned the European project, Greece’s former finance minister has other plans for the continent.
May 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Joseph Conrad and the Dawn of Globalization Joseph Conrad and the Dawn of Globalization
What passes for civilization is often just refined savagery.
May 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
Timothy Snyder’s Bleak Vision Timothy Snyder’s Bleak Vision
In The Road to Unfreedom, Snyder’s vision of history driven by rival states and ruthless statesmen undermines his own insistence on the importance of individual responsibility.&nbs...
May 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Sophie Pinkham
from ‘TRIPAS’ from ‘TRIPAS’
Conduzco y conduces —carpoolers & Catholics— conduction wires to Latin. “Brought together” —heads bowed as if praying— these women make strange commun…
May 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Brandon Som
ah mulato tu dedo ah mulato tu dedo
dónde lo dejaste1 enredado en qué helice en qué fauce2 quién lo conserva de recuerdo en un frasquito de cristal3 quién lo usa para carnada con qué pescar tiburones4 quién lo apoya…
May 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Mayra Santos-Febres