It's not like you're going to convince decision-makers and they're going to make the right decision for you. It really is a question of forces, not men, which is the sort of line I hammer on throughout the whole book. Which means our response to it needs to be about forces, not men.
Forget the Cayman Islands. Picture instead the rundown Huntington building in Cleveland's downtown skyline and an abandoned steel plant in Warren, Ohio.
Since the release of his first novel in 1971, Frederic Tuten has charted a singular course through the comparatively choppy waters of late twentieth-century American belles lettres.
I think writing is, in a lot of ways, life-saving work for so many of us that feel like we're walking through the world without a sense of being seen or known or heard.
The idea that you can just be in this space of pure intellectual pursuit, without a body to feed or provide shelter for, that just by pursuing these kinds of degrees, you leave your body behind, is a fiction.
For his new memoir, Predator, Ander Monson watched the eponymous 1987 action flick 146 times.
Daisy Fried’s most recent book, The Year the City Emptied, is a collection of translations and brilliant off-the-leash renderings of Baudelaire, written in 2020 in Philadelphia during the first year of the COVID pandemic.
Meredith Doench is a crime writer located in Dayton, Ohio, and best known for her Luce Hansen series.
On the cover of Angelo Maneage’s THE IMPROPER USE OF PLATES are five dark circles—appropriately, very plate-like—set against an off-white background for contrast.
Asad Haider is Assistant Professor of Politics at York University, a founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, and the author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (Verso Books, 2018; reprint: Mistaken Identity: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology, Verso Books, 2022).
Susan Briante’s Defacing the Monument has won numerous awards since its publication by Noemi Press in August 2020.
This series explores how more private experiences of looking are (or can become) forms of discourse, of collective exchange.