A World Without Guernica?
…on the internet and in the world. “Guernica, and its editors, respect the life of the mind with an intensity rarely seen these days.” –George Saunders Please help Guernica sustain…
…on the internet and in the world. “Guernica, and its editors, respect the life of the mind with an intensity rarely seen these days.” –George Saunders Please help Guernica sustain…
…a prize handed over by a whimsical jury or because a combination of factors sent a ball into or over a net. We live in dreams; we go into the…
…are proud of survival but reluctant to call it resilience.” Terese Mailhot: I would not use the word resilience to describe what we do when we’ve been traumatized by the…
https://www.guernicamag.com/terese-mailhot-truth-is-my-aesthetic/
…the Gulf of Maine in the early-nineteenth-century China trade, of my great-grandfather’s organizing the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company in 1899 not because of the money in the business but because of…
https://www.guernicamag.com/lewis-lapham-the-less-than-eternal-sea/
…November 7th? And that’s just one region on a planet aboil. Similar questions could be asked of Israeli policy on Iran where Prime Minister Netanyahu has been, quite literally, on…
https://www.guernicamag.com/tom-engelhardt-obama-against-the-world/
…Affordable Care Act would add a 3.8 percent surcharge). Funny, I don’t remember the economy suffering under Bill Clinton’s taxes. I was in Clinton’s cabinet, so perhaps my memory is…
https://www.guernicamag.com/robert-reich-the-truth-about-obamas-tax-proposal/
…Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennett had little prospect of freedom and happiness after marrying Mr. Darcy. Hopeful Monsters, by contrast, spans decades of the German-Jewish scientist Eleanor Anders’ relationship with the Englishman…
…the net in 2003, the ladder has been an atavism. It exists solely to screw things up. In a June 2010 game, Red Sox rookie Daniel Nava suffered a virtual…
…equivalent of white male landowners at the top. I spoke to Lalami—she in California, I in New York—a few days after the nineteenth anniversary of 9/11, just as the summer…
https://www.guernicamag.com/laila-lalami-we-have-to-think-about-citizenship-as-a-relationship/
…us how the sides, roads and bridges are eroded by the snowmelt. They describe the direction of the flow while we talk about temporary solutions, in the form of gabions—net…
…could “take the public out of public charter schools.” In 2011 the Gates Foundation seems to have deepened its anti-government efforts, giving almost $400,000 to the conservatives’ legislative privatization network…
…parks and city streets; the Internet and scientific knowledge; ethnic cuisines and hip-hop rhythms; the U.S. Weather Service and blood banks. But it’s more than just things—it’s also the set…
…to monetize the global-warming impacts of coal and other fossil fuels used by electric utilities and other major industries. In America, fossil fuel producers and users do not pay for…
I navigate a series of dark lanes. I use tiny roads, passing shops selling car batteries, ceramic tiles, thread, water pipes, exotic birds, mutton, and mosquito nets, all to get…
…will form part of a longer documentary about the Libyan Revolution. Scheduled for release on Al Jazeera Net and DVD, the documentary covers the revolution from February through to August…
…Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics that our sexual crisis, arising from the “impact of Internet porn, sexual pharmacology, and the hypersexualization of popular culture,” and “the war…
https://www.guernicamag.com/cold-inside-sexual-climate-change/
…as well as economist John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society , and seems to aspire herself to write “a study of affluence.” “Widespread poverty is not an anomaly. But widespread…
…safety net? The government produced failure and insecurity, and crack buffered the results (and proved a boon to a burgeoning prison-industrial complex). Likewise, the drug-taking that exploded in the 1960s…
https://www.guernicamag.com/rebecca-solnit-apologies-to-mexico/
…looks online. His head is like a cement block. Oak sucks in, blows out, pushes off from the boards. He loops behind their net and smacks his forehead against the…
…waste and presenteeism of late capitalism’s corporate wasteland.” Either the home audience simply prefers to cast the interpretive net wider, or the foreign audience is more eager to pounce on…
https://www.guernicamag.com/astri-von-arbin-ahlander-interview-with-sam-lipsyte/