Notable New York, This Week 2/22 – 2/28
This week in New York 2010: Whitney Biennial opens, Gigantic holds a launch party for Issue 2: Gigantic America, Anderbo Reading at KGB, Mary Karr talks with Philip Gourevitch, MOMA premieres...
View ArticleArizona Bans Books
Arizona has found the Tuscon Unifed School District’s Mexican American studies program in violation of a ruling that prohibits courses and classes that ‘promote the overthrow of the United States...
View ArticlePrivilege vs. Privilege
In an excerpt from her book The Shelf, Phyllis Rose illustrates the systematic dismissal of women writers through the imagined figure of Prospero’s Daughter: wealthy and educated yet burdened by the...
View ArticleSongs of Our Lives: Stereolab’s “Pause”
I. A light May rain fell on my face as I woke; predawn light smudged the field where, the night before, we’d dragged our sleeping bags to study the stars. Under that silvery light we’d held hands and...
View ArticleInterrogating the English Language with Safiya Sinclair
I remember Safiya Sinclair from my time at Bennington College, though I’m sure she doesn’t remember me. She was one of the serious literature students who graduated my freshman year. I’ve kept up with...
View ArticleThey’re No Soldiers: Ryan McIlvain’s The Radicals
A company loses millions, its employees lose their jobs, and the executives who lost those millions walk away with millions more in severance. A pharmaceutical company buys a life-saving drug and...
View ArticleWhat Lurks Below: A Conversation with Chloe Aridjis
I came across Chloe Aridjis by chance. As I scrolled through Instagram, the cover of her forthcoming novel, Sea Monsters, caught my eye. I immediately contacted her publicity team for an early copy,...
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