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LISTEN: Andrew Cuomo Says Cities Are in Trouble in a ‘Post-Covid World’
The former governor won’t say if he voted for Letitia James, but he’s got lots to say about how the Democratic Party has lost the script on crime as he says people tell him they “are afraid of the feeling I get in the city,” and much more.
NONCOMPLIANT HEART
Writer Wendy C. Ortiz traces the development of her rebellious spirit and schools us in fascism’s ties to the Pledge of Allegiance.
The Nigeria Prize 2022: Garlands for New Blood
If it wasn’t obvious enough that the leading poetic voices on the continent now belong to a new generation of writers bred in the jungles of the internet and raised in the angst of 21st-century dilemmas and preoccupations, the new NLNG prize shortlist has made it clearer.
“Mountain Woman” Depicts Human Cruelty and Desperation in a Japanese Village
With its story about an outcast family, “Mountain Woman” explores humanity’s darkness against a beautiful backdrop of Japan’s countryside
HOLDING LIFE LIGHTLY: CRYBABY WILL DRY OUR TEARS
Miah Jeffra reviews Cheryl Klein's fertility and cancer memoir "Crybaby", an exploration of cancer, fertility, eating disorder, queer desire, and the self.
Taiwan’s Founding Mothers?: Untold Herstory
If America needs more 1619 stories than it does 1776 ones, then Taiwan needs more stories about 228 and the White Terror.
‘Same As It Always Is’—Manny Kirchheimer’s New York, and His Pandemic Time Warp
“New York is so rich, and I couldn’t afford to travel so New York became my movie set.”
The Cross-Straits Politics of Global Panda Health
Tuan Tuan, one of four giant pandas displayed in the Taipei Zoo, has become ill with brain lesions.
Michigan Ballot Measure Would Finally Bring Financial Disclosures—and Weaker Term Limits
Proposal 1 would make more than 300 term-limited politicians in Michigan once again eligible to run for office.
LEARNING TO THROW AXES
Horrified by the overturning of Roe v Wade, a Latina consoles herself with a re-imagining of Medusa and axes.
Saddiq Dzukogi’s Poetics of Grief
Martin Heidegger in The Origin of the Work of Art describes language as “home of being.” He also describes poetry as a form with powers to disclose “being.”
Our Haunted Apartment in Montreal
twenty years on, the author reflects on being trapped in a vortex of dark energy