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Feminism

Leading the Resistance Into Battle

An Interview With Sonia Purnell

March 24, 2020 • by Sonia Purnell and Taylor Sue Leonhardt

The following interview with Sonia Purnell, a 2020 finalist in biography, is part of a series of NBCC interviews conducted by New School creative writing students. In her biography, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II, Sonia Purnell captures the ...

From the Editors

Praise the Lord and Pass the Hand Sanitizer

To heck with elections: we’re all at war with a virus now

March 18, 2020 • by Claire Potter

We agree with Governor DeWine on this thing, and perhaps this thing only. While the coronavirus pandemic is endlessly political, public health is more important things than politics now. We say this even though intervening in the election in this practical way may a signal how the legitimacy of the ...

Praise the Lord and Pass the Hand Sanitizer

Gender

Looking for the Original “Welfare Queen”

An Interview With Josh Levin

March 17, 2020 • by Josh Levin and Lauren Browne

The following interview, with Josh Levin the 2020 award winner for biography, is part of a series of NBCC interviews conducted by New School creative writing students. In his critically acclaimed book The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth, Josh Levin, national editor at Slate, introduces us to Linda Taylor, ...

Looking for the Original “Welfare Queen”

Activism

Life and Protest in Hong Kong Amid COVID-19

An Interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Author of Vigil: Hong Kong On The Brink

March 17, 2020 • by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Mark Frazier

Mark W. Frazier [MF]: Your book was released on February 11, in the midst of a public health crisis in mainland China that has meant massive disruptions to life and work in Hong Kong, the cancellation of a major international arts festival, and the cessation (for now at least) of ...

Life and Protest in Hong Kong Amid COVID-19

Feminism

Celebrating the “Female Byron”: An Interview With Lucasta Miller

The National Book Critics Circle finalist on her biography, L.E.L.

March 13, 2020 • by Lucasta Miller and Kate Tooley

Lucasta Miller, author of The Bronte Myth, returns to the world of 19th century female authors with L.E.L., an extensively researched recasting of the life and career of Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Long ignored and dismissed by critics, recently unearthed information has shed light on Landon’s personal life and by extension offered a new perspective ...

Celebrating the “Female Byron”: An Interview With Lucasta Miller

From the Editors

Remember, Remember, It’s All About November. And Coronavirus.

Joe Biden’s resounding victory over Bernie Sanders reflects voter fatigue and voter fear, but also confidence in the establishment

March 10, 2020 • by Claire Potter

Pryzbyla pointed out that farmers in the Upper Peninsula, many of whom voted for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and then for Donald Trump, are now going bankrupt because of Trump’s immigration policies. The cherries for which they are so famous rotted in the fields last summer. But Sanders’s socialism scared them ...

Remember, Remember, It’s All About November. And Coronavirus.

Interviews

Permission To Be Yourself: An Interview With Mira Jacob

The National Book Critics Circle finalist for her Autobiography, Good Talk

March 6, 2020 • by Mira Jacob and Ramya Ramana

--- Ramya Ramana [RR]: So first I want to say thank you for writing this, from the bottom of my heart because it was just so refreshing to read a story that I could see myself in, and so much of your journey. I felt like I see myself and I ...

Permission To Be Yourself: An Interview With Mira Jacob

From the Editors

Joeypalooza!

The Biden campaign comes roaring back to give Bernie Sanders a cold shower on Super Tuesday

March 3, 2020 • by Claire Potter

“What he was, was tough from the neck up,” Richard Ben Cramer wrote about Biden in What It Takes: The Way to the White House (1992), “but it wasn’t just fights: if you could run,” one of Biden’s friends would tell you, “Joe Biden could run faster. If you had ...

History

Fifty Years of Social Research

Arien Mack reflects on her half-century stewardship of The New School’s flagship quarterly journal

March 1, 2020 • by Arien Mack and James Miller

James Miller [JM]: Let’s start at the beginning. What year did you come to The New School for Social Research? Arien Mack [AM]: 1966. I had just gotten my Ph.D. JM: At that time, how much did you know about the legacy, the traditions of The New School? Did you know anything at all ...

From the Editors

The 2,000-Year-Old Men

February 26, 2020 • by Claire Potter

We have had this guilty thought long before Mayor Pete articulated it for us in his unique tone, one in which he manages to convey optimism, despair and his own brand of aggression simultaneously. Lately, as Sanders’s actual policies seem to be impressing more and more voters, and an extraordinary ...

From the Editors

Where Have You Been, Michael Bloomberg?

A nation turns its lonely eyes to you — or not

February 19, 2020 • by Claire Potter

Of course, New Hampshire, and the Nevada caucuses that are coming up on Saturday, February 22 have been overshadowed by an elephant that has been lurking in the room for weeks. Former Republican New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has, to date, spent over $300 million in advertising, has ...

From the Editors

When Steve Kornacki Has to Scroll Down the Big Board to Find You…

…You don’t have a ticket out of New Hampshire

February 12, 2020 • by Claire Potter

Settling in for the long night that all elections seem to have become now, we recalled, as if it had occurred in another country, the 2016 New Hampshire Primary that changed everything. Sanders drubbed Hillary Clinton by 22 points, something that had not seemed possible. Donald Trump beat John Kasich, which seemed just -- ...