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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

Lisa Germano: Apathy and the Devil

May 22, 2013

The singer-songwriter talks with Dave Evans about her new label, the “protest album,” and her cats.

Mattea Kramer & Jo Comerford: How America Became a Third World Country

May 22, 2013

Ten years from now, looking back on the sequestration.

Robert Reich: Global Capital and the Nation State

May 22, 2013

Global corporations are holding governments and citizens up for ransom.

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy: Somebody Give Bill Gates and Drew Faust a Copy of Citizens Disunited

May 21, 2013

The new book by “class traitor” Robert Monks shows a system at its breaking point—and names the twenty-four Americans who can fix it.

Rebecca Solnit: Too Soon to Tell

May 21, 2013

The case for hope, continued.

Paul Kiel: The 182 Percent Loan

May 21, 2013

How installment lenders put borrowers in a world of hurt.

Robert Reich: The IRS and the Real Scandal

May 20, 2013

The problem is that the IRS has interpreted our tax laws to allow big corporations and wealthy individuals unlimited political influence.

Mimi Hanaoka: Misadventures with the Mukhabarat

May 20, 2013

How can you prove to the Syrian secret police that you’re not an Algerian spy?

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.

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