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Castes of Mind

Suraj Yengde

March 24, 2021

On the intersection of race and caste.

Outside the Text

Andrew Marzoni

March 10, 2021

  A charming depressive with David Lynch hair and shirt collars unbuttoned to the nipple, Jackie “Jacques” Derrida was named after the child star of Charlie Chaplin’s film The Kid by middle-class Jewish parents in El Biar, a suburb of Algiers, in 1930. Thirty-seven ...

All Roads Lead to Beijing

Matthew Shen Goodman

February 24, 2021

Chinese infrastructure policy and its Western thinkers.

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Matthew Zarenkiewicz

February 23, 2021

Fifty Shades of Grey with Iowa MFA bona fides

Arts and Statecraft

Sophie Haigney

February 09, 2021

Is the history of America a history of craft?

Run, River

Will Noah

February 01, 2021

On Juan José Saer's backwater modernism.

A State of One’s Own

Francis Wade

January 26, 2021

On the colonial roots of postcolonial violence.

Little Pieces of Metal

Karthik Purushothaman

December 10, 2020

On Philip Metres’s poetry of war and reconciliation.

Sex and Sensibility

Corinne Manning

November 25, 2020

On Mattilda Sycamore’s The Freezer Door

Talk Less, Work More

Namit Arora

November 23, 2020

On India’s troubled relationship with democratic values.

A Long Way from Home

Francis Wade

October 13, 2020

Charting the rise of stateless populations.

Johannesburg Blues

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce 

October 09, 2020

Ivan Vladislavić’s characters are lost in the new South Africa.