Latest

  • Claustropolis: 1984

    “Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…

    Read more

ALL Posts

  • Love, but not for the colonized: Responding to the repression of Palestine solidarity at CUNY

    Originally published: Mondoweiss  on February 7, 2024 by Britt Munro, Conor Tomás Reed and Lucien Baskin (more by Mondoweiss)  |  (Posted Feb 10, 2024) Human Rights, Inequality, Movements, State RepressionAmericas, Palestine, United StatesNewswireCity University of New York, CUNY students, Lehman College, Within Our Lifetime (WOL), Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Several months ago, the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program at Lehman College1 (a…

  • Sony Thang

    VLADIMIR PUTIN: [Mr President, your interview with Tucker Carlson has already garnered one billion views. While there has been a lot of positive feedback, we can see the kind of comments that Western leaders are making. For example, the Prime Minister of the UK and the German Chancellor labelled your explanation that the special military…

  • Pablo Neruda’s Extraordinary Life, in an Illustrated Love Letter to Language

    BY MARIA POPOVA Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904–September 23, 1973) was not only one of the greatest poets in human history, but also a man of extraordinary insight into the human spirit — take, for instance, his remarkable reflection on what a childhood encounter taught him about why we make art, quite possibly the most beautiful…

  • On a Beam of Light: The Story of Albert Einstein, Illustrated by the Great Vladimir Radunsky

    BY MARIA POPOVA Given my soft spot for picture-book and graphic-novel accounts of famous lives, including Charles Darwin, Julia Child, Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Feynman, Ella Fitzgerald, and Steve Jobs, I was instantly taken with On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein (public library). Written by Jennifer Berne and illustrated by none other than Vladimir Radunsky — the same magnificent talent who brought young…

  • The Rebellious and Revolutionary Life of Galileo, Illustrated

    BY MARIA POPOVA In 1564, Galileo Galilei was born into a world with no clocks, telescopes, or microscopes — a world that was believed to be the center of the universe, orbited by the sun and the moon and the stars. By the time he died seventy-seven years later, his ideas had planted the seed for the…

Search