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The Global Rise of Xenophobia, the New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal unveils its latest issue

March 30, 2022 • by Social Research

The rise of Xenophobia, globally, has unfortunately become increasingly virulent. The latest issue of Social Research, through a set of case studies, draws connections between the personal and the political with contributions from Marci Shore, Erika Lee, Bálint Madlovics, Irena Grudzińska Gross, Sina Arnold, Jocelyne Cesari, Mehmet Kurt, Munawwar Abdulla ...

The Global Rise of Xenophobia, the New Issue of Social Research

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Boris Pasternak in Spring

A translation of the poet’s very early work

March 18, 2022 • by Inessa Medzhibovskaya

Boris Pasternak, a Jew by birth, chose to remain in Soviet Russia when the rest of his family, his famous father, painter and portraitist Leonid Pasternak including, had left, never to return....

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Take Me Out with the Crowd

On loneliness and Hannah Arendt

February 16, 2022 • by Christian Sheppard

Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism tells the true crime story of the twentieth century. Contrary to the basic requirements of human condition, Loneliness is one of the fundamental experiences of human life. ...

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Decolonizing Daniel Defoe

How Black lives matter in A Journal of the Plague Year

February 9, 2022 • by Anna Neill

It isn’t hard to see why A Journal of the Plague Year has enjoyed renewed attention in recent times. But to invoke it without considering Defoe’s support for British imperialism and the expanding Atlantic slave trade is to make literary history complicit with colonial and racial injustice....

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Loneliness, The New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

February 7, 2022 • by Social Research

time of social distancing: a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the latest issue of Social Research engages itself with a reconsideration of the ideas about loneliness in American Culture. The literature explores the concept of loneliness, as is present in a number of notable books: David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd; ...

Loneliness, The New Issue of Social Research

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Literary Imperialism and Scenes of High Melodrama

When BIPOC and queer writers defy minimalism

February 1, 2022 • by Torsa Ghosal

The term melodrama is a value judgment—and as such, it can be careless. ...

Literary Imperialism and Scenes of High Melodrama

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The Eleventh Mouse

A writer welcomes the unexpected at end of an old year and the start of a new one

January 3, 2022 • by Maureen Buchanan Jones

Here I was caring for another creature with more than a bit of martyrdom and annoyance in my heart. I had forgotten my self-administered advice as an antidote to despair that “something extraordinary is going to happen today.”...

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Libertie

In Brooklyn in 1860, a daughter watches her mother bring a patient back from the dead, in this excerpt from Kaitlyn Greenidge’s second novel

December 15, 2021 • by Kaitlyn Greenidge

I saw my mother raise a man from the dead. “It still didn’t help him much, my love,” she told me. But I saw her do it all the same. That’s how I knew she was magic....

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The Best Books I Read in 2021

And why I liked them

December 15, 2021 • by Claire Potter

It’s the most wonderful time of the year—buying books for other people that you want to read yourself! And on that note, here are the best ones I read last year. All links are to IndieBound to gently nudge you to buy from independent bookstores. Fiction It’s a tie between Douglas Stuart’s ...

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We Are Watching Eliza Bright

A woman speaks out against workplace hostility and becomes the target of the violent male collective

October 25, 2021 • by A.E. Osworth

Excerpted from Chapter 13 Eliza needs to go to the bathroom. She needs to go to the private bathroom, so she can cry alone. In her hands, she clutches two things—her phone and a printout of the Career Tree she filled out with Preston just last Friday. We aren’t sure why ...

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A Trippy, Tech-Noir Novel Exploring the Dark Recesses of the Internet and Male Rage

A.E. Osworth chats with Public Seminar about Osworth’s debut novel, We Are Watching Eliza Bright

October 25, 2021 • by Vicky Oliver and A.E. Osworth

Published in 2021, A.E. Osworth’s debut novel, We Are Watching Eliza Bright (Grand Central Publishing) was longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel prize. Osworth’s novel started as a homework assignment during their Creative Writing M.F.A. at The New School. They recently had a conversation with Public Seminar intern ...

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Boris Pasternak in Spring

A translation of the poet’s very early work

Decolonizing Daniel Defoe

How Black lives matter in A Journal of the Plague Year

Literary Imperialism and Scenes of High Melodrama

When BIPOC and queer writers defy minimalism

The Eleventh Mouse

A writer welcomes the unexpected at end of an old year and the start of a new one

Libertie

In Brooklyn in 1860, a daughter watches her mother bring a patient back from the dead, in this excerpt from Kaitlyn Greenidge’s second novel

The Best Books I Read in 2021

And why I liked them

We Are Watching Eliza Bright

A woman speaks out against workplace hostility and becomes the target of the violent male collective

A Trippy, Tech-Noir Novel Exploring the Dark Recesses of the Internet and Male Rage

A.E. Osworth chats with Public Seminar about Osworth’s debut novel, We Are Watching Eliza Bright

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The New School journal unveils its latest issue

A translation of the poet’s very early work

In the face of utter despair that goes with solitary confinement, tiny red ants are the only sign of hope

On loneliness and Hannah Arendt

How Black lives matter in A Journal of the Plague Year

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

When BIPOC and queer writers defy minimalism

A writer welcomes the unexpected at end of an old year and the start of a new one

In Brooklyn in 1860, a daughter watches her mother bring a patient back from the dead, in this excerpt from Kaitlyn Greenidge’s second novel

And why I liked them

A woman speaks out against workplace hostility and becomes the target of the violent male collective

A.E. Osworth chats with Public Seminar about Osworth’s debut novel, We Are Watching Eliza Bright

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