Guernica

A Magazine of Global Arts & Politics

Subscribe Donate
  • Home
  • Arts & Culture
  • Politics
  • Bodies & Nature
  • Lives
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Specials
  • More…
Explore… Search
Search for:
Arts & Culture Politics Bodies & Nature Lives Fiction Poetry Specials More…

He Who Fishes

By Garen Torikian

Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong: Light and Shadows

By Hua Xi and Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong

The Shape of Vodou in Diaspora

By Dieu-Nalio Chery and Gabriel Noel

I Am the Ghost Here

By Kim Samek

Rebecca Bates

Rebecca Bates is a senior editor at Sweet on Snapchat Discover and has written about culture, art, and books for Vice, The Paris Review Daily, Guernica, The New Inquiry, NYLON, and elsewhere. She also coedits Powder Keg, a quarterly poetry magazine.
http://rebecca-bates.com
Interview Arts & CultureClimate & Environment

Clive Oppenheimer: Werner Herzog’s True Virgil

By Rebecca Bates December 16, 2016
The volcanologist on "red water," white whales, and the center of the earth.
Commentary Arts & Culture

Anne Carson’s Collapse of History

By Rebecca Bates July 13, 2012

The author's Antigonick is an affecting interpretation of Sophocles' classic.

Review Arts & Culture

A Critique of War, An “Orgy of Death”

By Rebecca Bates February 27, 2012
Artist Adel Abdessemed presents a brutal commentary on violence and spectatorship.
Commentary RaceUSA

I Ran Away From Home and All I Got Was This Lousy Deportation

By Rebecca Bates January 5, 2012
A Dallas teen missing since 2010 turns up in Colombia, where she was deported after a mistaken identity.
Interview Arts & Culture

Dario Robleto: Best 2011 Art Show NYers Won’t See

By Rebecca Bates December 22, 2011
The Texas-based artist’s solo exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center confronts human-induced extinction.
Photography Arts & Culture

101 Ways to Be Impossible

By Rebecca Bates November 17, 2011
The Impossible Project gets crafty with instant film.
Commentary Arts & Culture

Comic Con Tales from Behind the Booth

By Rebecca Bates October 26, 2011
Glimpses into adult Halloween, where delusion is (more than) a costume you wear as second skin and candy is JJ Abrams’s used napkin.
Commentary Climate & EnvironmentJustice

Mr. McKibben Goes to Washington: The Final Anti-Tar Sands Pipeline Rally

By Rebecca Bates September 8, 2011
These days it seems you can’t be a real environmentalist without a rap sheet… but to what avail?
Review Lit World

The Writerly Insecurities of Ben Mirov (And How They Are Not a Gimmick)

By Rebecca Bates July 19, 2011
In the best way, reading Ben Mirov’s Vortexts is like perpetually trying to recover one’s train of thought mid-sentence but always failing.
Donate
About Contact Shop Submissions Events Advertise Press Release

Guernica

Guernica is a non-profit magazine dedicated to global art and politics, published online since 2004. With contributors from every continent and at every stage of their careers, we are a home for singular voices, incisive ideas, and critical questions.

© 2004-2023 Guernica. All Rights Reserved.