The Arch of Injustice | Public Books
[ad_1] Asked to identify the city that best captures the long arc and ongoing dynamics of American history, most people would select New York or…
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Re-embodying Palestinian Memory | Public Books
[ad_1] The ethnic cleansing and ongoing colonization of Palestine are a war not only against bodies, ecosystems, and livelihoods but against memory itself. This war…
Who Killed Nordic Noir? | Public Books
[ad_1] We begin, as usual, with a dead body. In April 2020 an 84-year-old Swedish woman died in the happily unsuspicious circumstances of old age.…
Leïla Slimani’s Taboos | Public Books
[ad_1] French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani likes to reveal the dirty underside of bourgeois domesticity: her messed-up characters and their psychosexual dramas are fascinating in the…
Books and Abandonment | Public Books
[ad_1] Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season, which was a sensation in Mexico on its 2017 publication, arrives in English during a season of stormy weather for…
Internet Dystopias after Trump | Public Books
[ad_1] Fitting chaos into form is what genre was made for. But what does it mean for our literature—let alone our society—when reality suddenly turns…
Beyond the Objectivity Myth | Public Books
[ad_1] On March 11 of this year, I closed the door to my study, not sure when or if I would return. It is one…
The Limits of Telecommuting | Public Books
[ad_1] Forty years prior to COVID-19, Alvin Toffler saw the future of working from home, and it looked very good. In his 1980 best seller,…
Buster Keaton Falls Up | Public Books
[ad_1] Comedy inverts norms and breaks barriers. But in order to reveal, as Northrop Frye suggested it must, “absurd or irrational [patriarchal] law,” comedy requires…
Let’s Polarize Together | Public Books
[ad_1] We may have only one world, but life unfolds in many layers. A good way to understand our multitiered reality is through three seemingly…