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When the World Abandoned the Cambodian Refugees

An interview with author James Taing about his father’s escape from the Cambodian genocide

March 22, 2023 • by Tobias Lentz and James Taing

I think in today's world where everyone has an immigration problem, we need to make sure we are not repeating the same mistakes....

When the World Abandoned the Cambodian Refugees

Europe & Central Asia

Reflections on the collective ‘Russian’ guilt and responsibility

March 20, 2023 • by Maria Stepanova

The war, begun by Russia, had deprived life of all its connective tissue: nothing happening outside Ukraine held any meaning or had any weight....

Film & Performing Arts

Entertaining Propaganda: Hate-watching Fauda

The elision of the difference between Jews and Israel is one of the tragedies of the Middle East conflict

March 20, 2023 • by Mitchell Abidor

In Fauda, the Palestinians are often driven more by personal pathology than an outrage at historic injustice....

Entertaining Propaganda: Hate-watching <em>Fauda</em>

Gender

Why Women Are Still Second-Class Citizens in the United States

As Women’s History Month begins, let’s start with the present

March 8, 2023 • by Claire Potter

Without access to affordable, safe, child care, women have less access to work. Period....

Why Women Are Still Second-Class Citizens in the United States

History

An excerpt from Singular Pasts: The “I” in Historiography

March 8, 2023 • by Enzo Traverso

Historical narration had to be anonymous and the historian undetectable lest they make their presence known in any way. ...

Art & Design

Poetic Rage, Anti-colonial Avant-gardes

An excerpt of Interior Frontiers

March 7, 2023 • by Ann Stoler

This essay distills what I see as a fugitive, peripatetic set of counter-colonial avant-gardes, innovative and mobile to different degrees, challenging both what avant-gardes do and who are included among them. I do not treat them as a movement but as convergent spaces of work and thought, of “counter-conducts,” of ...

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What’s the Story at Creative Nonfiction?

A premier journal that pioneered a literary form has gone dark, and readers want to know why

March 1, 2023 • by Vicky Oliver

Was the decades-old, and recently suspended, Creative Nonfiction doomed? Is it even dead? ...

What’s the Story at <em>Creative Nonfiction</em>?

Interviews

Understanding Sovereign Lending

An interview with Quentin Bruneau on his new book, States and the Masters of Capital

March 1, 2023 • by Quentin Bruneau and Zoe Cole

While we can quibble about what sovereignty means as social scientists, the international system is almost exclusively populated by sovereign states—and I wanted to understand how lending to such entities functions....

Economy

Statistics as a Form of Knowledge

An excerpt from Quentin Bruneau’s States and the Masters of Capital

March 1, 2023 • by Quentin Bruneau

An excerpt from Quentin Bruneau's States and the Masters of Capital...

Europe & Central Asia

Canceling the West, Putin Aims to “Make Russia Great Again”

The fact that anti-Western rhetoric is increasingly popular in Russia should be a wake-up call for Europe and the U.S.

March 1, 2023 • by Anastasia Shteinert

What is happening now in the country is the reappearance and radicalization of a centuries-old resentment of the West, in the context of the war in Ukraine....

Canceling the West, Putin Aims to “Make Russia Great Again”

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You Have Some Unfinished Business!

From architectural ruins to grocery lists to high-end fashion, is there something attractive about being incomplete?

February 28, 2023 • by Palak Godara

The possibility that my endless to-do lists are a form of ambition and memory-banking fills me with a happy sense of resolution....

Interviews

Poetry, Cocktails, and Faith

A conversation with poet Mashnun Munir

February 27, 2023 • by Shaiful Alam and Mashnun Munir

An interview with Mashnun Munir about his debut book Headspun and his experience of growing up in a low-income Muslim community in Orlando....

Essays

When the World Abandoned the Cambodian Refugees

An interview with author James Taing about his father’s escape from the Cambodian genocide

The Russian Question

Reflections on the collective ‘Russian’ guilt and responsibility

Entertaining Propaganda: Hate-watching Fauda

The elision of the difference between Jews and Israel is one of the tragedies of the Middle East conflict

Why Women Are Still Second-Class Citizens in the United States

As Women’s History Month begins, let’s start with the present

Writing in Third Person

An excerpt from Singular Pasts: The “I” in Historiography

Poetic Rage, Anti-colonial Avant-gardes

An excerpt of Interior Frontiers

What’s the Story at Creative Nonfiction?

A premier journal that pioneered a literary form has gone dark, and readers want to know why

Understanding Sovereign Lending

An interview with Quentin Bruneau on his new book, States and the Masters of Capital

Statistics as a Form of Knowledge

An excerpt from Quentin Bruneau’s States and the Masters of Capital

Canceling the West, Putin Aims to “Make Russia Great Again”

The fact that anti-Western rhetoric is increasingly popular in Russia should be a wake-up call for Europe and the U.S.

You Have Some Unfinished Business!

From architectural ruins to grocery lists to high-end fashion, is there something attractive about being incomplete?

Poetry, Cocktails, and Faith

A conversation with poet Mashnun Munir

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