1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1416+ words) Public Books a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship The Allure of Postcolonial Pathos The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Sonia and Sunny first meet only a third of the way through Kiran Desai’s sprawling, Booker-nominated novel, The Loneliness of…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (275+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship But as governments across the globe fail to address—and indeed exacerbate—myriad health crises, there is good reason to question the limits of both medical knowledge and available care. In “The Health…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (629+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship From afar, the protagonists’ lives are seamlessly entwined with the rhythms of the city. We first see Anu and Prabha on a Mumbai local train. Anu sleeps with abandon, while Prabha stands at…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1157+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship B. R. Cohen (BRC): You’re a renowned Soviet historian and environmental historian of despoiled spaces, nuclear damage zones, and the like, plus someone fiercely committed to the craft of writing. You’ve now written a book…...

7+ mon, 2+ day ago   (464+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Still, Byron told BOMB recently, “But I do find myself in the camp of saying, ‘I’m a writer who is trans,’ rather than, “I am a capital-t Trans Writer.’ It’s a great starting…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (383+ words) Laure Astourian (LA): What led you to write this book? Could you describe the rough archive in question, and how you engaged with it before and during the writing process? Anouche Kunth (AK): My unexpected encounter with a mass of…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (337+ words) The question raised by the possibility of these common descents has been issued generation and generation anew: What exactly are we to do with the spoils of our shared past? What do we make of the people and languages that…...