The celebration of endangered literatures from around the world continues with poetry from the Pamirs in Tajikistan and NE Pakistan. With translation! Sunday, Nov. 17…
Celebrate the launch of Spook’s third issue with a panel discussion and reception in the MoCADA gallery! Founder Jason Parham and contributors Morgan Parker, Josie Duffy,…
Van Alen Institute is pleased to present an evening of performances, talks, and reflections to celebrate the launch of Elsewhere: Escape and the Urban Landscape, an…
"Glamour only works when it can tap preexisting discontent, giving otherwise inchoate longings an object of focus": A look at Virginia Postrel's "The Power of Glamour"
Secret Admirer is a reading with a mystery curator whose name is revealed at the end. This edition features readers Malcolm Harris, Sarah Nicole Prickett,…
Happiness, fitness, long-life, wisdom, creativity: all these things have been just within reach since Marcus Aurelius. Yet, somehow, we don’t seem to be getting any better...
Meet Joël Dicker, a 27-year-old Swiss sensation whose second book, La vérité sur l’affaire Harry Quebert kicked Fifty Shades of Grey off the bestseller list of Amazon.fr, and has…
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.