Guernica
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On Fracking and Earthquakes
“The occurrence of yet another freak earthquake in an unusual location is leading many anti-fracking activists…to wonder whether ‘fracking’ in nearby West Virginia may be responsible.” This article discusses the link that geologists observe between fracking—specifically the step where waste…
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The Help
There has been much analysis of the recently released blockbuster adaptation of the bestselling novel, The Help. Last week Professor Melissa Harris-Perry began live-tweeting as she sat through the movie, concluding that it “reduces systematic, violent racism, sexism, and labor…
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Filming The Police
Phones and other devices have given people the ability to record and expose police misconduct. Sometimes, these recordings provide evidence for bringing charges against brutality, such as in the case of Oscar Grant. However, as this article explores, existing wiretapping…
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Drones Revealed
The art exhibition “Gaming in Waziristan,” in progress at London’s Beaconsfield Gallery, includes previously unseen photographs of post-drone strike moments in North Waziristan, along with 3D animation and moving images. The project seeks to interrogate structures of power, the war…
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Amitav, Interviewed
In the current climate of booming Indian fiction, six-time novelist, Amitav Ghosh, is interviewed on Guernica. His internationalist perspective comes from a background in journalism and his PhD in social anthropology from Oxford, all working in conjunction to uniquely inform…
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Notable New York, This Week 10/11 – 10/17
This week in New York David Grossman translates with Paul Auster, Justin Taylor and Eva Tamladge exhibit tattoos for the literary inclined, Tao Lin reads, Guernica celebrates, Bill Bryson is Private, Rick Moody joins the Sunday Salon, Catfish is the…
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On Cephalophores
Suzanne Menghraj at Guernica writes about disembodied heads and the presence of mind in the absence of brain: “And yet here I am despite all the impossibilities, eerily enchanted by the thought of a mind having such control over its…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/26 – 5/2
This week in New York the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival (PWVF) opens its week-long celebration of international writing with such notable literary figures as Sherman Alexie, Claire Messud, Yiyun Li, Salman Rushdie and Lewis Lapham among others (Full…
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Judith Butler At Guernica
“All I really have to say about life is that for it to be regarded as valuable, it has to first be regarded as grievable. A life that is in some sense socially dead or already ‘lost’ cannot be grieved…
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Hate’s Ugly Revival
“Over the last decade Hispanic immigrants have become the main focus of American hate groups. According to Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center, after September 11, 2001, the conservative media began discussing immigration as a national security issue,…
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Guernica and Triple Canopy: Two Not to Miss
Two pieces of writing that caught my eye today were Bridget Potter’s essay “Lucky Girl” in Guernica, and Joshua Cohen’s “Thirty-Six Shades of Prussian Blue” in Triple Canopy. Potter’s startling essay relays her experience getting an illegal abortion as a…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/15 – 3/21
This week in New York Keith Gessen and Elif Batuman talk, Guernica has a reading, Joanna Newsom sings and plays harp, Marcel Dzama appears, talks and signs books, The Moth has a Story Slam, Christopher Walken loses a hand and…