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The Saddest Cattle in the World: Atahualpa Yupanqui, Empire, and the Sound of Stolen Land
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (929+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship There is a couplet that contains the essence of Argentina’s colonial and postcolonial political economy, a poetic image that speaks a thousand words and synthesizes imperial ideology in one definitive swoop. Atahualpa Yupanqui…...
???If a Woman Commanded Fire???: Talking Historical Stoves and Affordable Energy with Joyce Chaplin
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1150+ words) “If a Woman Commanded Fire”: Talking Historical Stoves and Affordable Energy with Joyce Chaplin Public Books a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship “If a Woman Commanded Fire”: Talking Historical Stoves and Affordable Energy with Joyce Chaplin The Franklin Stove:…...
Mirta Ojito on “Deeper than the Ocean”
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (136+ words) Public Books a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Mirta Ojito on “Deeper than the Ocean” Deeper Than the Ocean The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mirta Ojito, who has written two non-fiction books, has now written her first novel. Deeper Than…...
B-Sides: Albert O. Hirschman’s “The Passions and the Interests”
5+ mon, 6+ day ago (645+ words) publicbooks.org a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship B-Sides: Albert O. Hirschman’s “The Passions and the Interests” The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph It is a short book, an elegant book, and an erudite…...
We Are the Authors of the Story of Citizenship: Daisy Hernández on America’s Myth
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (849+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Daisy Hernández’s new book, Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth (Hogarth Press, February 2026), blends in-depth reporting with memoir to interrogate the very idea of American citizenship, highlighting notions of citizenship through exclusion, social…...
Jazmine Ulloa on “El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory”
6+ mon, 2+ day ago (232+ words) Public Books a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Jazmine Ulloa on “El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory” We’re back for season 4 of Writing Latinos! Our first guest is Jazmine Ulloa, a…...
“Recover, Replant, Return”: Talking Nuclear History, Writing, and Food with Kate Brown
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…...
Eisenstein’s Unrealized Worlds
7+ mon, 2+ day ago (242+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Yet he ultimately planned to depict state-sponsored pogroms, the empire’s antisemitic policies, and an unjust trial led by politically motivated officials readily persecuting citizens. Given the nationalist and imperialist trends that had solidified…...
“To Wither in the Same Way We Shall”: Talking Archives, Diseases, and History with Edna Bonhomme
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (620+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Yet actual lives and the embodied aftermaths of disease ground the commitments in her text A History of the World in Six Plagues. I connected with Edna soon after the book’s publication to…...
Displacement as Method
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (909+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Researchers have a question they don’t ask often enough: What does your positioning let you see? That assumption breaks when you’re displaced. When the systems you study are reshaping the places your family…...