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Interviews

Simon Critchley on the Most Important Philosophical Book of the Twentieth Century

“It is my conviction that genuine philosophy can be explained simply and clearly”

July 1, 2024 • by Simon Critchley and Megan Robinson

Heidegger’s working closely within the philosophical tradition; he thinks that we need to get closer to how the world actually shows up practically and how others enter into that world....

Simon Critchley on the Most Important Philosophical Book of the Twentieth Century

Interviews

“The gun has become a type of thinking”

A conversation about war with the Sudanese writer Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin

June 26, 2024 • by Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin and Anna Simone Reumert

Sudan needs a leader that is disconnected to this power. The “Messiah” in my novel about Darfur is not connected to any religion, he is a symbol of spirituality. The opposite of political Islam, which has ruled the country for so long....

Economy

Is Finance a “Parasite”?

Tracing financial capital—from J. P. Morgan to BlackRock

June 25, 2024 • by Scott Aquanno, Stephen Maher and Anna Pick

Democratizing the state means deepening public control over the Fed and other macroeconomic institutions, to run finance as a public utility....

East Asia & Pacific

How Vanessa Chan Came to Write a Global Bestseller, The Storm We Made

A graduate of The New School’s MFA in Creative Writing shines a light on a rarely discussed period of Malaysian history

June 5, 2024 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In the lonely period of the pandemic, Vanessa Chan could not get home to her family. In those years, she lost her mother. She sheltered in place. And she wrote her first book, The Storm We Made....

How Vanessa Chan Came to Write a Global Bestseller, The Storm We Made

Interviews

Art and Wartime in Ann Hood’s The Stolen Child

The author on the process of finding her new novel

May 13, 2024 • by Ann Hood and Emma Minor

Author Ann Hood sits down with Emma Minor to discuss how her new novel THE STOLEN CHILD explores the complexities of forgiveness....

Art and Wartime in Ann Hood’s The Stolen Child

Film

A Love Affair Without Sex?

Slow, the latest film by director Marija Kavtaradzė, is a heartfelt portrait of a couple on terra incognita

May 2, 2024 • by Mitchell Abidor and Marija Kavtaradzė

Slow, the latest film by director Marija Kavtaradzė, is a heartfelt portrait of a couple on terra incognita...

Democracy

Liberalism Against Itself and the Return of the Cold War

An interview with Samuel Moyn

April 24, 2024 • by Julian Nicolai Hofmann and Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn annd Julian Nicolai Hofmann explore the resurgence of Cold War liberalism amid global crises. Through historical analysis, Moyn examines liberalism's evolution, highlighting its transformation and proposing a revival of its progressive elements for the future....

Liberalism Against Itself and the Return of the Cold War

Activism

Publishing and Political Culture

A forum on little magazines and radical politics

April 23, 2024 • by Hira Ahmed, Lisa Borst, Max Fox, Charlie Lee, Natasha Lennard, Natasha Lewis, Max-Henry Moorhead and Edward Ongweso Jr

The New School’s Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism (CPCJ) and Woodbine Research Center present a discussion on the role of radical politics in publishing. ...

Interviews

Exploring Immigrant Experiences

Annell López on the deeply personal origins of her short stories

April 18, 2024 • by Annell López and Rupal Rao

Annell López on the deeply personal origins of her short story collection, I'll Give You a Reason...

Indigenous Peoples

Belonging as Poetry in New Narratives on the Peopling of America

A new book reshapes how we talk about immigration

April 3, 2024 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Alexandra Délano Alonso and Paloma Griffin

T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso chat with Paloma Griffin about challenging conventional stories of immigration in their book NEW NARRATIVES OF THE PEOPLING OF AMERICA....

Belonging as Poetry in New Narratives on the Peopling of America

Film & Performing Arts

Horror and Humor in Hulu’s The Other Black Girl

The genre-bending drama challenges the white workplace

February 26, 2024 • by Kelby Clark

Based on the bestselling novel by Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl dissects the horror of insidious racism in white workplaces...

Horror and Humor in Hulu’s The Other Black Girl

Interviews

Artists Against Colonels

In Shades of Resistance, unexceptional people take exceptional risks

December 5, 2023 • by Joseph Matthews and Evangeline Riddiford Graham

Joseph Matthews and Evangeline Riddiford Graham chat about using fiction to unravel fascism, and why the “regime of the colonels” found the Greek underground counteroffensive of poetry and music so difficult to control....