Clinton Williamson spoke to archaeologist David Wengrow about his book with co-author David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything, and about how their new interpretation of the past confounds conventional histories.
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Clinton Williamson spoke to archaeologist David Wengrow about his book with co-author David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything, and about how their new interpretation of the past confounds conventional histories.
Read MoreFree-market interests used fights over COVID protocols to further privatize K-12 education. Economist Emily Oster, whose research is funded by those groups, has laundered their ideologies and given them the imprimatur of science, write epidemiologists Abigail Cartus and Justin Feldman.
Read MorePoet Madeline Lane-McKinley’s “The apocalypse will have beach chairs” observes the end of the world as an accumulation of refuse: a dead seal, bottle caps, and the literary works of Jonathan Franzen.
Read MoreKB Brookins’s concrete poem, “Self-Portrait as a Hackberry Tree,” uses ecology as poetic form to explore love, survival, and kinship.
Read MorePoet Gion Davis’s “Little Dog Day” meditates on poverty, resource extraction, and the struggle to survive under capitalism.
Read MoreSudip Bhattacharya’s interviews with workers at an Amazon facility in Staten Island reveal ruthless conditions, management’s overwhelming power—and how, despite that, they’ve found solidarity in organizing the Amazon Labor Union.
Read MoreFar from aberrations or mistakes, violent police raids like the one that killed Breonna Taylor knowingly target Black homes—in service of both racist aggression and real estate profit, writes David Helps.
Read MoreGermany-based poet Darling Fitch’s “The Blood” reminds us that, seven decades later, Europe still hasn’t fully reckoned with the legacy of Nazi occupation and its “boring business of death.”
Read MorePoet Lakshmi Mitra’s “myth-making” explores work, memory, and ecological death in India.
Read MoreAdam Fales reviews Olga Ravn’s The Employees: a slyly oblique sci-fi novel that transposes the alienation of the capitalist workplace onto a 22nd-century commercial starship.
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