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....
by Julissa Guerrero Iniguez | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Euphoria’s Minor Mother Euphoria debuted on HBO in 2019, meeting with almost universal critical acclaim. The show is a teen drama that explicitly confronts controversial subjects like drug addiction, abusive relationships, and mental illness. At the show’s center is...
by Alexander Billet | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Apocalypse Songs: On the Music of Algiers Algiers are, unmistakably, a band well-acquainted with late capitalism’s structure of feeling. Journalists who dubbed their sound “dystopian groove” summed them up accurately. Their distinct, post-punk mélange of electro,...
by Arielle Stambler | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Beyond the Doomsday Machine: Teaching Literature Now Literary study offers an opportunity to suspend disbelief, to imagine the world not as it is, but as it could be. This is the line I write on the syllabus for every undergraduate English course I teach. I want to...
