Pranay Somayajula interrogates the insidious rhetorical tactics of far-right Hindutva ideologues like Indian PM Narendra Modi and the BJP and RSS, who tacitly sanction pogroms while staying at arm’s length from the violence.
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Pranay Somayajula interrogates the insidious rhetorical tactics of far-right Hindutva ideologues like Indian PM Narendra Modi and the BJP and RSS, who tacitly sanction pogroms while staying at arm’s length from the violence.
Read MoreInnas Tsuroiya’s “Doomsday Pantoum,” wields the 15th-century Malaysian poetic form against the man-made kingdom of wealth, warning: “If you did not give up the lands, golden stools, / we laboring mass would start fires: must let go.”
Read MorePoet Karlo Sevilla’s “Apple Rant” follows the circulation of apples from U.S. orchards to street vendors in the Philippines, exposing the commodity as a site of imperial history, cultural anxiety, and class struggle.
Read MorePoet Sarpong-Osei Asamoah’s “Lost Dogs” is a prayer of revulsion, oscillating between the heavens and the sewers.
Read MoreSam Russek interviewed Ramza, an encampment resident in New York City who has been subjected to repeated arrest and police harassment. Sweeps have worsened under Mayor Eric Adams’s punitive policies.
Read MoreInterviews with Starbucks union employees by Sudip Bhattacharya describe growing solidarity, company retaliation, and some bad-faith meetings with CEO Howard Schultz.
Read MoreDevin Thomas O’Shea relates the sordid history of St. Louis, MO’s Veiled Prophet Society—an occult men’s club and debutante ball for Southern power elites, founded by a Confederate who adapted a 19th-century poem to serve as a stand-in for the Ku Klux Klan.
Read MorePoet Ryan Boyd’s “Wolves” assesses the “gray jubilee” of capitalist crisis as it unfolds in “cities sick / with envy” and “scabbed with police.”
Read MoreMarcos Gonsalez reviews Alejandro Varela’s debut novel The Town of Babylon. Andrés, the novel’s gay Colombian-American protagonist, returns to suburbia and muses on identity, race, and the prejudice and hierarchy that constitutes America.
Read MorePoet James O’Leary’s “Shot Down Above Sicily” explores historical memory through the mysterious death of French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who vanished during an anti-Nazi reconnaissance mission.
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