Imagining the mass strike and practically organizing it are one and the same activity.
Mary Seacole and the Cholera in Panama
Mary Seacole’s account of her role in treating Cholera’s victims presents a portrait of one epidemic-stricken community that responds in ways both typical and, in our own pandemic times, uncomfortably familiar.
Reading the Dehumanized Perspective in Narratives of the Partition of 1947
The insidious malleability of dehumanization sheds a great deal of light on ingroup-outgroup tensions.
The Pandemic and Zizek’s ‘Pandemic!’ and Zizek
How much worse can it get?
What Would a 21st-Century Federal Writers Project Look Like?
A new Federal Writers Project could work to make our digital legacy comprehensible for future readers.
This is the experience of waiting: wanting to be doing something but knowing it won’t mean anything—the meaning is what we’re waiting for.
Families Fall Apart While Friendships Flourish in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet
At heart, Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer ask us: what holds people together who are living through this political moment of breakage?
Myths over History: the Strange Story of 21st Century Traditionalism on the Far Right
Geopolitics as a field is catnip for Traditionalists and others attracted by the high-end and fatuous.
Impossible Demand: Utopic Poetry
Reading poetry has felt like a ridiculous use of my time and a necessary one.
Mind Melding Across the Genre Divide
To choose the “we” narrator is inherently political. The collectively narrated novel is fairly new—to literary realism, anyway.