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Yellow Summer Rain

By Na Zhong

One Hundred Percent House

By Shin Hae-uk, translated by Spencer Lee-Lenfield

On Stoicism

By Peter Trachtenberg

Song of the Lake

By Tamanda Kanjaye

Meara Sharma

Meara Sharma is a senior nonfiction editor for Guernica. As a journalist, her interests include religion, the environment, and cultural memory. She has produced radio for WNYC's On the Media and contributed to the New York Times, NPR, Matador, Studio 360, and elsewhere.
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Interview AfricaConflict

Alexis Okeowo: Everyday Africans Fighting Extremism

By Meara Sharma November 13, 2017
The journalist on establishing emotional connection in interviews, and getting on with the business of living after trauma.
Interview Arts & CultureHealth

Siri Hustvedt: Both Sides of the Chasm

By Meara Sharma April 3, 2017
The novelist and science writer on gender in publishing, the pleasures of neuroscience, and the necessity of rage.
The Future of the Body Interview Bodies & NatureTechnology & the Future

Ron Shigeta: We All Need Biotechnology

By Meara Sharma February 20, 2017
The biotech entrepreneur on using lab-grown food and other forms of biomimicry to solve global crises.
The Boundaries of Taste Interview Arts & Culture

Eric Asimov on Oenophilia

By Meara Sharma June 15, 2015
The New York Times chief wine critic on the perils of connoisseurship and the pleasure in discovering one’s personal taste.
Essay Asia & OceaniaClimate & Environment

A Non-Place by the Sea

By Henry Peck and Meara Sharma December 23, 2014
When a storm destroyed Dhanushkodi, the government ordered it emptied. Fifty years later, we meet the people who stayed.
Religion in America: Gods and Devils Interview ReligionUSA

Gadadhara Pandit Dasa: What We Are Now, You Shall Be

By Meara Sharma December 15, 2014

The Hare Krishna monk on cultural stereotypes, teaching faith through food, and America’s obsession with yoga.

Interview RaceUSA

Claudia Rankine on Blackness as the Second Person

By Meara Sharma November 17, 2014

The National Book Award finalist on chronicling everyday racism, the violence inherent in language, and the continuum from Rodney King to Michael Brown.

American Empires: Power and Its Discontents Interview ReligionUSA

Anthony Pinn on Divine Acquisition

By Meara Sharma October 1, 2014

The scholar of African-American religion on black megachurches and the marketability of the American Dream.

Class in America: The Fault Lines Interview ClassUSA

Jane Black and Brent Cunningham: Servings of Small Change

By Meara Sharma June 16, 2014

The food writers on building a food movement that transcends class lines.

The American South: On the Map and in the Mind Interview Health

Marcie Cohen Ferris: Salt of the Earth

By Meara Sharma March 17, 2014

The Southern food historian on the politics of consumption, matzoh ball gumbo, and the multicultural “terroir” of the South.

The American South: On the Map and in the Mind Interview Justice

Bryan Stevenson: Walking With the Wind

By Meara Sharma March 17, 2014
The Alabama-based lawyer on who we talk about when we talk about the Old South, bringing 12 Years a Slave to Montgomery, and how his project to locate and mark the sites of slave markets speaks the language of Southern history.
Freedom of Expression: The Gray Areas Interview Justice

Masha Gessen: Propaganda On Russia’s Own Shrinking Public Acceptance Space To Talk Of Reality

By Meara Sharma February 3, 2014
The investigative journalist on anti-queer campaigns and the "catastrophe" of exile.
Interview Arts & Culture

Deborah Solomon: Through The Looking Glass

By Meara Sharma January 15, 2014
A new biography of Norman Rockwell casts light on the man who hid behind his finely wrought paintings.
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