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Utopia

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SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW: A Search for Transcendence & Annihilation in New Zealand’s Hippie Paradise 

  • Allegra Hyde
  • October 11, 2022
“I once ate a mushroom in New Zealand,” I tell people, “though I had no idea if it was edible.” 
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A Utopia of One’s Own: Heaven Is a Place on Earth by Adrian Shirk

  • Carly Willsie
  • May 10, 2022
. . . utopia is a living, breathing, imperfect thing that expands and grows with us. It’s always a reflection of our individual selves, of the larger communities we choose, and of the time and place we are born into.
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A Gripping, Limited Call to Arms: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments

  • Gina Frangello
  • December 11, 2019
There are so many happy endings that dystopia and utopia become almost indistinguishable by the novel’s end.
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A Complicated, Shifting Subjectivity: Talking with Franny Choi

  • Levi Todd
  • May 28, 2019
Franny Choi discusses her second collection, SOFT SCIENCE.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sarah Blake

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • January 30, 2018
Sarah Blake discusses her new collection, Let's Not Live on Earth, questions in poems, monsters, and the challenge of writing a dystopia.
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Album of the Week: Björk’s Utopia

  • Guia Cortassa
  • November 28, 2017
"i feel in this time of trump it is a necessity to have a plan, a manifesto, an alternative."
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Fidel Castro: The Playboy Comandante

  • Abel Sierra Madero
  • November 24, 2017
The comandante produced ideological fantasies on a mass scale within the context of the Cold War which led to an exotic, sexy, and happy vision of Cuba.
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Many Roads to Worship

  • Kirstin Allio
  • August 25, 2016
Erik Reece, author of Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America’s Most Radical Idea, writes a lively review of Thomas More’s 1516 novel, Utopia, for FSG’s Work in Progress. More’s…
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The Commune

  • Swan Huntley
  • June 27, 2016
Our house, we believed, was a microcosm of that country. Every month, we’d gather at the kitchen table for our house meeting, where we, like politicians, unveiled our big plans for change.
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The Rumpus Interview with Chris Jennings

  • Lindsay Whalen
  • February 15, 2016
Chris Jennings talks about his new book Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism, incremental reform, Transcendentalists, Shakers, and creating a more perfect future.
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What Doesn’t Yet Exist

  • Lyz Lenz
  • October 22, 2015
At the Guardian, Terry Eagleton writes about revolutions, the future, and utopias: The real soothsayers are those hired by the big corporations to peer into the entrails of the system…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

  • Lyz Lenz
  • July 28, 2015
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) Getting your MFA at 68. Utopias have nothing but trouble. Fetishizing food.…
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