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Nathaniel Rich writes that in Storm George R. Stewart "defiantly takes the global perspective. He traces the narrative of his heroine back to the histo…
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Who is she? asks Saidiya Hartman in the early pages of her most recent work, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. The question is inspired by a photog…
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by Ann Kjellberg, editor  The Roman version of opera publica (public works) included not only aqueducts and sewers but also temples, baths, theaters, m…
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by Ann Kjellberg, editor  Editor Ann Kjellberg considers the infrastructure of ideas, and whether it is or is not a part of the current infrastructure …
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For years, in order to write, I would rent small rooms by the water, hoping in that way to summon in near silence the world I was trying to bring to li…
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In order to confront my new role as a suburban mother of a large family, I could no longer be content with working part-time at Présence Africaine nor …
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Robert Walser was known in his lifetime, if he was known at all, for short, uncanny, discursive prose pieces that beguiled an influential circle of Cen…
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by Ann Kjellberg, editor  Perhaps the crossroads of Portland's India and Washington Streets is a signpost of things to come, when the breakup of our of…
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by Ann Kjellberg, editor  Kaila Boulware-Sykes and Raymond Sykes answered poverty, violence, and exclusion with the one vehicle they knew for truth and…
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187 million tons of pollock have been mined from the North Pacific Ocean since 1950. They masquerade as crab and shrimp meat. They appear in Walmart fi…
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Even before the pandemic I had been toying with the idea of a version of teaching writing that would be all writing. That sounds cerebral and lonesome,…
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