Guernica Magazine
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Walking Through Violence
Walking straight into violence was nothing new to me. I’d learned how to walk deliberately and unflinchingly into violence from my father, like so many other children do in this country. In fact, in this country we raise all of…
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Women Writers on Arabian Nights
Erica Wagner interviews Hanan Al-Shayk, Lebanese author, and Marina Warner, cultural historian, on what the modern world can learn from 1,001 Nights for Guernica Magazine. The three feminist-minded writers champion 1,001 Nights for its giving voice to the oppressed and…
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Alice Walker on Censorship
Guernica interviews Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple and one of the most censored contemporary writers, in honor of Banned Books Week. The Color Purple has been voted off school curriculums and out of school libraries many times since…
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Praise For Dispatch From The Future
This month’s Rumpus Book Club selection – Leigh Stein’s Dispatch from the Future – gets an outstanding review from Guernica Magazine: “Stein’s poems are the very perfect product of a frenetic in-between culture where knowledge is currency but also poverty, and its…
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A Bay Area Talk Tonight!
BOMB and Guernica Magazine are collaborating for a talk that is both free and open to the public. Come celebrate indie magazines by mingling with the writers and artists that contribute to them! Where: The Make-out Room, 3225 22nd Street,…
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Eat Your Sprouts
“Any potential act of terrorism simply feeds the system, creating new opportunities to add yet more layers to one bureaucracy or another, or to promote new programs of surveillance, control, and war-making.” Guernica Magazine’s Tom Engelhardt discusses terrorism in the…
