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Academics strike at Rutgers in front of admin building.

The First Strike: Rutgers Academics Against Precarity

By: Sudip Bhattacharya April 21, 2023August 19, 2023
News Analysis

Sudip Bhattacharya, a researcher at Rutgers, reports on the recent labor action there. In the first strike of Rutgers’s 257 years, new solidarities emerged among not only precarious adjunct faculty and grad students, but also undergraduates, university employees, and beyond.

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News Analysis

Harsh Vibrations

By: Evan Malmgren April 19, 2023August 19, 2023
Critique & Essays

Havana Syndrome, Evan Malmgren writes, may be a hoax, but militaries have long been captivated by the idea of directed energy weapons. Even if Cuba isn’t using them to give headaches to diplomats, the thought that they might may be the weapons’ greatest purpose.

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Critique & Essays
Cover of Ludovico Silva, Marx's Literary Style

Review: Marx’s Literary Style, by Ludovico Silva

By: Sam Russek April 12, 2023August 19, 2023
Reviews

Sam Russek reviews Verso’s new English edition of Ludovico Silva’s classic Marx’s Literary Style (trans. Paco Brito Núñez). As Silva illustrated in 1971, Marx’s harmonies between concretion and literary flourishes are key to his work’s effect.

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Reviews

[Scholars say El Salvador…]

By: William Archila April 4, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

Part of a larger sonnet sequence based on the pre-Columbian myth of El Cipitio, William Archila’s untitled poem explores Salvadoran history and the scholars who distort it.

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Poetry

Ballad of saltwater children

By: Sarpong Osei Asamoah April 1, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

In “Ballad of saltwater children,” poet Sarpong Osei Asamoah illuminates the histories of the Akan people and their long struggle against the “borderless noose” of racial capitalism and ecological violence.

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Poetry

Iron

By: Cody Tracy March 30, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

Poet Cody Tracy’s “Iron” narrates our ecological and social decline as “A bond between rivers. Between the gone and / those of us not yet dead.”

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Poetry

Guitar-Shaped Forest

By: Brett Belcastro March 21, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

Poet Brett Belcastro’s “Guitar-Shaped Forest” oscillates between visions of apocalyptic militarism and utopian longing.

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Poetry

In Shaa Allah

By: Faidaro Tesleem March 18, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

Nigerian poet Fadairo Tesleem’s “In Shaa Allah” is a prayer against war and a call to “lift the lamp of solace & may it flutterĀ / through the four edges of the world.”

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Poetry

In My Home City

By: CD Eskilson March 15, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

Poet CD Eskilson’s “In My Home City” mourns a neighborhood obliterated by development projects and hostile architecture.

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Poetry

Same Season

By: Isabella Cruz Pantoja March 13, 2023August 19, 2023
Poetry

In “Same Season,” Brazilian poet Isabella Cruz Pantoja explores the contradictions of human and ecological relationships during “the season of / blackouts, of landslides, and mudslides, of / too much water and not enough water.”

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Poetry

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