Festival of Fear
The Jaipur Literature Festival serves as marketing for an increasingly repressive India.
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The Novel According to Bezos
October 21, 2021
Has Amazon changed literature?
The Never-Ending Story
October 20, 2021
Storytelling amid the ruins in Joy Williams’s “Harrow.”
Fresh Hell
October 15, 2021
The Nightmare of History
Generally speaking, “history,” as it’s taught to children suffering through our glorious public education system, has tended to accept that the Holocaust—during which, it might be recalled, some six million Jewish men, women, and children were ...
Thunderheads
Short fiction by Michael Bible.
Taxis Take a Stand
October 14, 2021
In New York City, cabbies are protesting 24/7 for debt relief.
Hey, Kids, Who Screwed the Climate?
October 13, 2021
The fight against fossil fuels needs intergenerational solidarity.
Fresh Hell
October 08, 2021
The United Nations & Co.
The United Nations General Assembly launched into its seventy-sixth session last month, an interminable parade of proclamations and resolutions and revisions to previous proclamations and resolutions that will set the stage for Sustainable ...
Culture of Abuse
On the “cruel indifference” of France’s Catholic Church.
After Eden
October 07, 2021
Traversing the scarred landscapes of Jean Giono’s Provence.
Molecules and Vectors
October 06, 2021
On Noel Ignatiev’s radical, lifelong commitments.
The Toll of Toil
October 05, 2021
On August 29, as United States’ twenty-year war in Afghanistan lurched to a close, the Pentagon fired a Hellfire missile from a drone to strike suspected Islamic State militants. The missile used in the airstrike, an R9X, has been touted variously for its ability to pinpoint ...