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Every Woman Is a Working Woman

Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill Richards.

  • Silvia Federici
  • Jill Richards

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Susan Sontag. Margaret Atwood. Errol Morris. David Runciman. China Miéville.

Selling Outrage

Yochai Benkler argues that the mainstream media is our best hope for tempering the radical right. 

  • Yochai Benkler
  • Deborah Chasman

Empire’s Racketeers

Wajahat Ali speaks with Pankaj Mishra on the devastating consequences of Western imperialism, globalization, and capitalism and the fate of liberal democracy.

  • Pankaj Mishra
  • Wajahat Ali

Who’s Got Personality?

The Myers-Briggs Bias: An Interview with Merve Emre

  • Merve Emre
  • Deborah Chasman

Errol Morris on Steve Bannon’s Dangerous “Dharma”

Morris on his new film—and what’s at stake in trying to understand its subject.

  • Errol Morris
  • Deborah Chasman

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A Strategy for Ruination

An interview with China Miéville

  • China Miéville

Waving at Trains

Nalo Hopkinson on the politics of dystopia, writing from the Global South, and the enduring importance of black mermaids.

  • Nalo Hopkinson

The Conditions Are Always Impossible

Lily Blacksell talks to Luke Kennard about poetry, fiction, and the writing process.

  • Lily Blacksell
  • Luke Kennard

Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again

Junot Díaz talks with Atwood about The Handmaid’s Tale, political dystopias, and Drake.

  • Margaret Atwood
  • Junot Díaz

Radicalism Begins in the Body

Junot Díaz interviews science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany about what it means to be an aging sex radical and why he wrote the essay “Ash Wednesday.”

  • Junot Díaz
  • Samuel R. Delany

In Search of Thomas Jefferson

Hero or villain? It’s complicated.

  • Richard Kreitner
  • Annette Gordon-Reed
  • Peter S. Onuf

Do We Need a New Constitutional Convention?

A discussion of the fear and inertia baked into U.S. politics.

  • Sanford Levinson
  • Richard Kreitner

A Freedom in Being Minor

Jeff Alessandrelli interviews John Gallaher

  • John Gallaher
  • Jeff Alessandrelli

The Doors of Perception

An interview with poet Daniel Nadler.

  • Timothy Donnelly

The Contradiction of Nuclear Democracy

To be a nuclear-armed state is to invest the executive with dictatorial powers over immeasurable destructive capacity.

  • Elaine Scarry
  • Simon Waxman

Zero at the Boner

An interview with Nola Gignere.

  • Carol Muske-Dukes

An Interview with Tobias Wolff

  • Quyen Nguyen
  • Tobias Wolff

Toxicity, Vulnerability, Intimacy

An essay and interview with CM Burroughs

  • Megan Fernandes
  • CM Burroughs

The Conscience of Syria

An interview with activist and intellectual Yassin al-Haj Saleh.

  • Yassin al-Haj Saleh
  • Danny Postel
  • Nader Hashemi

What Are Radicals Good For?

An interview with George Scialabba on utopia, the hive mind, reviewers, and intellectuals.

  • Lindsey Gilbert
  • George Scialabba

“At the Mercy of My Poetic Voice”: An Interview with Alice Notley

Plus, a collage and new poems.

  • Lindsay Turner

Arresting Robert Mugabe

An interview with activist Peter Tatchell.

  • Tinashe Mushakavanhu

The Varieties of Blackness

An interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

  • Aaron Bady
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