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A Question of Faith

Jonathan Lee interviews Ayana Mathis in Interviews

The debut novelist on the Great Migration and nation-building, conflations of race and class, and her “belief in belief.”

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Thawra’s Loom

By Anna Badkhen in Features

Weaving carpets in Afghanistan.

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The Faraway Nearby

By Rebecca Solnit in Features

What’s your story? It’s all in the telling.

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Interior Lives

Katherine Rowland interviews Claire Messud in Interviews

The award-winning novelist on the fluidity of sexuality, the intersections of art and selfishness, and her most recent book, The Woman Upstairs.

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Mozambique’s Mining Boomtown

By Rowan Moore Gerety in Features

The discovery of a massive coal basin in Mozambique has kicked up a frenzy of investment, but this steroidal economy comes with a cost.

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Radical Transgenderism

Photographs by Elle Pérez  in Art

Bronx-born, Puerto Rican photographer Elle Pérez explores queer identity in rural Tennessee.

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The Hunger Bride

A novel excerpt by Julie Ries in Fiction

“Go home and pray to be forgiven,” she cried. “If you don’t pray now, you know what waits for you.”

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Pioneer

By Elena T. Tomorowitz in Poetry

Only two geese at midnight, only one within my range.

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Interior Lives

Katherine Rowland interviews Claire Messud

Another Kind of Life

Jonathan Lee interviews James Salter

History of Omission

Dwyer Murphy interviews Lynn Nottage
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INTERVIEWS

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Interior Lives

Katherine Rowland interviews Claire Messud

The award-winning novelist on the fluidity of sexuality, the intersections of art and selfishness, and her most recent book, The Woman Upstairs.

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Pioneer

By Elena T. Tomorowitz

Wish

By Marie-Claire Bancquart, translated from the French by Claire Eder

Twenty Flora

By Andrew Seguin
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POETRY

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Blasphemy

By Matt Sumpter

The worst thing we can think of, we’ve done

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The Hunger Bride

A novel excerpt by Julie Ries

Savage Coast

By Muriel Rukeyser, from her previously unpublished novel

Departures

By Patrick Dacey
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FICTION

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Blak Power

By NoViolet Bulawayo

They are just everywhere, walking, rushing, running, toyi-toying, fists and machetes and knives and sticks and all sorts of weapons and the flags of the country in the air, Budapest quivering with the sound of their blazing voices: Kill the Boer, the farmer, the khiwa.

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Images from an Unfathomable Place

Sara Yu interviews Hyon Gyon Park

Trompe l’oeils

By Julia Pfeiffer

Studio Visit: Adrián Sonni

Middle Mind Project interviews Adrián Sonni
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ART

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Radical Transgenderism

Photographs by Elle Pérez

Bronx-born, Puerto Rican photographer Elle Pérez explores queer identity in rural Tennessee.

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GUERNICA DAILY

Andy Kroll: Billionaires Unchained

May 17, 2013

America’s new pay-as-you-go democracy.

Robert Reich: Pyromaniacs on the Potomac

May 17, 2013

The problem with Obama’s second term.

Kaavya Asoka: Shifting the Gaze

May 16, 2013

The Guggenheim’s current exhibition, No Country, challenges conceptions of modern Asian art.

Sarah Browning: Poetry as Provocation

May 16, 2013

Camille Gage interviews the poet, activist, and director of Split This Rock.

Paul Kiel & Mitchell Hartman: Soldiers Defeated by Debt

May 16, 2013

Federal law is supposed to protect service members from predatory lending, but many military personnel are trapped in high-interest debt.

Keith Meatto: Seven Ways of Looking at The Great Gatsby

May 15, 2013

Meditations on Jay G, Jay-Z, the art of plagiarism, and America’s love affair with money, guns, and decadence

David Vine: Where Has All the Money Gone?

May 15, 2013

Contractors have raked in $385 billion to build and maintain military bases overseas. How much of the total is fraud?

Nick Turse: Nuclear Terror in the Middle East

May 14, 2013

Lethality beyond the pale.

Carlos Franz: Normalcy without Liberty

May 14, 2013

Life in East Germany on display in a strange Berlin museum.

Robert Reich: Working Mother’s Day

May 14, 2013

In 1966, only 20 percent of mothers with young children worked outside the home. By the late 1990s, 60 percent did.

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