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Out-of-Body Recognition: A Conversation with JinJin Xu

  • Sasha Burshteyn
  • January 8, 2021
JinJin Xu discusses her debut chapbook, THERE IS STILL SINGING IN THE AFTERLIFE.
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Imagination as Oasis: A Conversation with Sulaiman Addonia

  • Donna Hemans
  • September 23, 2020
Sulaiman Addonia discusses his new novel, SILENCE IS MY MOTHER TONGUE.
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Empathy Is Cheap: A Conversation with Brandon Harris

  • Lauren Wissot
  • August 2, 2017
Brandon Harris discusses his memoir Making Rent in Bed-Stuy, gentrification in New York City and Brooklyn, the homogenization of American cities by corporate America, and whiteness of film culture.
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A Language in Constant Rebellion: Talking with Aura Xilonen

  • Andrea Penman-Lomeli
  • May 19, 2017
Aura Xilonen discusses her novel, Gringo Champion, the realities of immigration, translating texts, and her love of cinema.
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The Girl on the Bike

  • Katharine Coldiron
  • February 9, 2017
First, we must recognize our removal from the machinations of the shadows. The screen stands between us and the internal world depicted on it. There is no communion.
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A Closer Look

  • Roxie Pell
  • July 21, 2015
That perfect movie moment is really the sum of countless cinematic cues coming together to make us think and feel. Tony Zhou’s video series “Every Frame a Painting” examines how…
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Extraordinary, Ordinary People: Another Year and the Films of Mike Leigh

  • Will Di Novi
  • March 8, 2011
Here is the world according to Johnny, the bilious antihero of Mike Leigh’s 1993 film Naked. Johnny is a restless drifter on an odyssey through London’s nocturnal underbelly, his feverish ranting a…
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