by Derek O'Leary | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Pilgrims at the Plantation “The moment you’ve been waiting for!” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Aaron Burr announces in Act I of Hamilton. “The pride of Mount Vernon: George Washington,” who stomps, stern and capable, onto the stage. (Thanks, Disney+.) There’s little new left...
by Olivia Joyce | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020, Uncategorized
REVELATIONS in Isolation In late March, faced with the new shelter-in-place order and only a faint understanding of the damage COVID-19 was to bring, I turned to my mother’s bookcase for a chance to escape. Luckily, I live with a parent who is a writer, poet, and...
by Madison Felman-Panagotacos | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Sacrificial Motherhood and Bodily Autonomy Deolinda Correa trudged across the arid Cuyo Valley in search of her husband, her infant son in tow. While her initial goal was the pursuit of her husband, who had been forcibly conscripted by a regional caudillo — a...
by Ksenia Firsova | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Science Fiction as an Abolitionist Tool While accepting the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014, Ursula K. Le Guin called for science-fiction writers to use their power of imagination to envision a world no...
by Jacob Soule | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
The Limits of Urbanism Some books are published at the wrong time. Richard Sennett’s and Pablo Sendra’s Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruption in the City is one such book. Published by Verso during the early peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in April, the work is...
by Ruddy Lopez | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Lineage and Language Throughout my adulthood, curanderas have said that my grandmother watches over me. I knew this was true when my mother came back from a visit to Mexico five years ago. She opened her suitcase and handed me a white plastic rosary and a black shawl....
