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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.

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 11): “Skinhead”

Using dramatic monologue, Smith unmasks the skinhead’s anger to fend off threats to his way of life.

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The Rumpus Review of Rogue One

So, what would populist ideology even look like in Star Wars?

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The Digital Dictator

I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night –Roman emperor Gaius Caligula (AD 12–AD 41). Part of…

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 6): “To Elsie”

Now the battle is joined. I will prosecute my part of it as a writer till the last dog dies...

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By the People, for the People

At Guernica, Tana Wojcznick unpacks Shakespeare’s lesser-known and often-misread play, Coriolanus, to bring us s its timely political warning about populism and democracy: It’s no accident that Coriolanus is not…

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Just Stir ‘Em Up

Just stir ’em up, it doesn’t matter how or why, and they’ll love you and come back for more. Pinch ’em in the soft place. They aren’t alive, most of…

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