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“I’m known as a sex radical, but the fact is I felt there was a world of experience that had been slipping away.”
Poetry and activism share an uneasy relationship.
Following the 2014 immigration crisis, Valeria Luiselli began volunteering at a New York City immigration court. This is what she heard.
Celebrated dystopian novelist Paul Kingsnorth talks surviving the collapse of civilization as we know it.
Emile Habiby's absurd fictions offer a map for surviving impossible political conditions.
Our democracy may depend on government workers, and indeed all of us, saying "I would prefer not to."
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Hamilton presents us with the Choice of Hercules retold as a choice between two kinds of political life.
As questions about Neruda's death linger, a lost archive of unpublished poems, hidden amongst his notebooks, has surfaced.
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