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Lisa Wells: Tapering of Extremes

By Michael Juliani May 22, 2018

The writer reflects on the beef between poets, enjoying every day miracles, and practicing selfless listening.

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Dorothy Allison: Tender to the Bone

By Amy Wright May 16, 2018

The acclaimed author on working-class anger and the glory in literature.

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Lotte Geeven: Crowdsourcing the Songs of Sand

By Jennifer Gersten May 7, 2018

The Dutch artist has enlisted helpers from around the globe to help her reproduce the unique sounds of the world’s singing deserts.

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Francisco Cantú and Lauren Markham: Border Patrol

By John Washington May 7, 2018

The journalists discuss their debut books, writing about borderlands, and the people who cross over.

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Karen Washington: It’s Not a Food Desert, It’s Food Apartheid

By Anna Brones May 7, 2018

The community activist pushes the food justice movement beyond raised beds, food pantries, new supermarkets, and white leadership.

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Sonam Wangchuk: An Ice Fountain Brings Water to the Himalayan Desert

By Teresa Krug May 7, 2018

Will this engineer’s “ice stupa” come to symbolize climate change adaptation?

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Back Draft: Carl Phillips

By Carl Phillips and Ben Purkert May 3, 2018

The inaugural installment of a new series about the revision process in poetry. First up: Carl Phillips.

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James Sherry: Leadership is Magnetic as Power is Aphrodisiacal

By Ben Tripp April 27, 2018

The poet on reviving Machiavelli for our times.

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Striving for Purpose

By Phineas Lambert April 19, 2018

Meg Wolitzer discusses politics and process in the context of her new novel, The Female Persuasion.

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Storytelling in the Age of Populism

By Kenneth Goldsmith and Mikkel Rosengaard March 28, 2018

Kenneth Goldsmith and Mikkel Rosengaard in conversation.

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Kimberlé Crenshaw: Up in Arms, a Conversation About Women and Weapons

By Nimmi Gowrinathan March 28, 2018

Female Fighters series: The activist-scholar talks about black women and militancy, and whether guns have a place in struggles for liberation.

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