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Aleksandar Hemon
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What Do I Do With My Fear?: A Conversation with Megan Stielstra
Megan Stielstra discusses her new essay collection, The Wrong Way to Save Your Life, fear, privilege, and the intersection of politics and everyday life.
All Writing Is Political: A Conversation with Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid discusses his new novel, Exit West, hope in fiction as a form of resistance, the necessity of learning to accept social change, and how much America and Pakistan have come to resemble each other.
This Week in Essays
Aleksandar Hemon explores moral relativism in a time of Trump for Lit Hub. At Catapult, Teow Lim Goh reminds us that we’ve been here before as she examines the repercussions…
Notable Chicago: 1/20–1/26
Friday 1/20: Protest your ass off here, here, or really anywhere. Be safe and take care of each other. Then visit Women & Children First to celebrate the launch of Fail…
The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon
Kevin O'Kelly reviews The Making of Zombie Wars today in Rumpus Books.
Motion Picture Soundtrack
As it turns out, Aleksandar Hemon jams out to D’angelo, Grimes, and Fela Kuti; for the rest of the tunes the writer put on his playlist for The Making of Zombie…
Willful Ignorance
Over at the New Yorker, Alaksandar Hemon reads a slice of Nabokov; afterward, he chats about the foreignness of language, learning English from Pnin, and the book’s “complicated innocence” towards…