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    Introduction to Issue #9

    Here we are at Issue # 9, wondering, as you are, how we got this far. Hard work? Nah. Perseverance? Not that, either. What then? Got me. But ...

    On August 28, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    The Shrine of Tears: A Peace Corps Memory

    By JOHN McCLURE “[The Kenya National Theater] is also known as the ‘Shrine of Tears’. It was so nicknamed for the mixed bag of fortunes that come to ...

    On August 28, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    Who Decides?

    By FRANCES NEGRÓN-MUNTANER Last June 11, the government of Puerto Rico held what turned out to be not only the island’s fifth political status consultation but also its most ill-fated ...

    On August 28, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    Fuck These Postmodern Writers: Meena Kandaswamy’s Depiction of Atrocity

    By ASHIK KUMAR In Tanjavur — the “Rice Bowl” of Tamil Nadu, India’s southernmost state — the many castes of Hindus are split into three groups: Brahmin, non-Brahmin, ...

    On August 28, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 1

    Talking to the Dead: Narrator and Audience in Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant

    By JESS ENGEBRETSON Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant is a story about digging up the past.  The novel imagines a 5th century land — what it would mean ...

    On August 28, 2017 / By Editor
  • Book Review 1

    Review of Lee Konstantinou, Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction (Harvard University Press, 2016)

    By BEN LIBMAN The “First Date” episode of Netflix’s hit series Master of None depicts a uniquely Millennial phenomenon: app-based dating. The episode follows lead character Dev Shah, ...

    On August 28, 2017 / By Editor
  • Essay 0

    Wicked Whitmans on TV

    By RACHEAL FEST AMC launched the soon-to-be acclaimed serial dramas Mad Men (2007–2015) and Breaking Bad (2008–2013) against a backdrop of global economic collapse. As small-screen heroes Donald ...

    On August 28, 2017 / By Editor
  • Art by Matt Friedman
    Essay 0

    Debt and Utopia

    By RICHARD DIENST Debt and Utopia? There must be some mistake. Surely all of us associate debt with dystopia, with dysfunctional economies, dead-end societies, and blocked lives. The ...

    On August 28, 2017 / By Editor
  • Book Review 0

    Homo Defeatist?

    By JASON FITZGERALD A Review of Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (Harper, 2017) Early in Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus: A Brief History ...

    On August 28, 2017 / By Editor
  • Interview 0

    Lipstick Traces: A Tale of Two Liberalisms

    By ANDREW HARTMAN and JAMES LIVINGSTON This is the continuation of an exchange which originated on Facebook, where Andrew Hartman noticed that James Livingston was getting agitated enough ...

    On August 28, 2017 / By Editor
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Table of Contents

  • Introduction to Issue #15
  • Is Capitalism Necessarily Racist?
  • Capitalism, Racism and Totality: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • The Answer Is No: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • Coddled?
  • Our Benevolent Feudalism
  • On Refugee Literature and the Art of Giving a Fuck
  • Zanzibar in Ivoryton
  • Figures of Catastrophe

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