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Jannie Edwards shares how advice from a fellow writer friend helped her to formulate the non-linear structure of her personal essay.

We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph or two about the most memorable books they read this year.

James W Loewen succumbed to the disease at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday, his publisher New Press announced Friday.

~ Today's Water Cooler ~

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein April 26, 2021 As a Black Jewish person who was socially assigned female at birth, I wasn’t supposed to become a theoretical physicist. Jewish women are familiar with this phenomenon, after having been locked out of the rabbinate for centuries. While theoretical physicists, like Rabbis, get to think about exciting questions regarding the origins of spacetime, gatekeeping impacts who gets to be in the room, calculating. Here is how I’ve come to better understand the...

Stella Matutina Farm, located outisde Ann Arbor, Mich., the home of Michael Martin and his family. (Photo courtesy of Michael Martin) One infernally hot July weekend in 2016, I drove three hours or so to a rather unique meetup at a place called Stella Matutina Farm, located a bit west of Ann Arbor, Mich. “You’ll love it,” my Facebook friend Michael Martin assured me in his email invitation. It sounded like he was planning some kind of outdoor fiesta for Catholics, convening a mix of write...

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen contrasts Judith Butlers democratic analysis of Occupy in Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly with the concept of permanent destitution as developed by Marcello Tarì in There is no Unhappy Revolution, appearing in English with Common Notions this month .   “Now comes the question of the reappropriation of violence, which the biopolitical democracies have, with all other intense expressions of life, so perfectly dispossessed”         -–Tiqqun, I...