David Means’s New Collection of Stories is Unstuck in Time
Madelyn Kent: How to Write Without Ambition and Resistance
The Unexamined Sex Life Is Not Worth Living
Jade Sharma: Problems
Kyle Lucia Wu interviews Jade Sharma about her new book and its focus on addition, prostitution, and the power of honesty and humor.
Laura Secor: The Language of Regime
The journalist on reporting from a post-revolutionary Iran and tracing the rich ferment of its intellectual and social history.
David Meanix: Face to Face
What we don't talk about when we talk about HIV and AIDS.
Michael Salu: Family Business
Yahdon Israel talks to Michael Salu about moving between texts and images
Ellis Avery: Native Daughter
An excerpt from Ellis Avery's upcoming book of essays, The Family Tooth.
Cristina Henríquez: The Stories of the Unknown
Michelle García speaks to Cristina Henríquez about her latest novel
Does Europe Really Have a Refugee Crisis?
Europe has the capacity to receive refugees, they just don't want to.
Karen Benke: Reviving The Lost Art of Letter Writing
“The radical creative act of freeing the inner, and outer, child.”
Ellis Avery: On Fear
The inspiration that comes when facing a terminal illness.
Jonathan Weisman: The Journalist as Novelist
Jonathan Weisman on his new novel No. 4 Imperial Lane and a family history that might make you feel better about your own.
Capturing Reality and Erasing Memory
On the sublime in Sally Mann, the painful reminders of Nan Goldin, and the impossibility of understanding the past.
Zephyr Teachout: The Contender
The former New York gubernatorial candidate on misperceptions of big government, the poetry of politics, and why “it would be a tragedy if [Hillary] ran in an uncontested primary.”
Thomas Page McBee: We Contain Multitudes
The trans author and journalist on masculinity and male privilege, writing about the body, and crafting new narratives about gender identities.
Wayétu Moore: The Evolution of Bernice
Being an immigrant made me feel different, but it was the color of my skin that marked me as suspect.
Erik Wennermark: In Hong Kong, the Last Days of Occupy
As the powers that be dismantle what remains of Hong Kong's mass protest movement, thoughts on winners and losers and the city's future.
Manash Bhattacharjee: Return to ‘Commitment’?
The politics of Picasso, Sartre, prose, and poetry.
Mallika Kaur, Harpreet Kaur Neelam, and Kirpa Kaur: Sikh Feminism and SAFAR
Daring to celebrate an egalitarian tradition.
Jan Bindas-Tenney: The Border Crisis in Leisureville
In Arizona, the Samaritans are working to provide water and aid to immigrants crossing the border—in spite of sabotaged water bottles and harassment from border patrol.
Cindy Lamothe: Fireworks in June
Making a run for it through El Salvador’s violent and burning streets, before curfew begins.
Janee Woods: A Different Kind of Justice
Punitive justice won't bring back Michael Brown--or Eric Garner or Tamir Rice or Trayvon Martin or John Crawford. Why unraveling systemic racism starts with communities, not courts.
Kaya Genç: Windows in the House of History
Hilary Mantel’s The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher offers the same lesson to matter public and private: it could always have been otherwise.
Thomas Larson: The Music Is Always There, Part 1
Reflections on jazz, improvisation, and the New Orleans Jazz Fest, 2014.
Şükran Moral: The Slow Unsilencing
On the eve of Contemporary Istanbul, Rachel Friedman talks with one of Turkey’s most controversial artists about performance, process, and what happens when your art makes you a target.
Studs Terkel: You Got Into My Heart Violently, But You’re There
Trauma, death, and forgiveness on the front lines of American life.
Stephen Darcy Collins: In Kobani
ISIS and the sadistic theater of learned helplessness.
Tana Wojczuk: Gone Girl, Bluebeard, and the Meaning of Marriage
A response to Elif Batuman’s “Marriage is an Abduction.”
Dana Goldstein: How Should a Teacher Be?
Lara Zarum interviews the author of "The Teacher Wars" on the history of education reform and the future of teaching.
Erik Wennermark: City of Protest
In Hong Kong, participatory democracy fights the forces of inertia and autocracy.
Ben Steele: Russia’s Violent Intolerance
Lara Zarum talks to Steele, director of the documentary Hunted, about his experience following Russia’s brutal anti-gay vigilante groups.
Erik Wennermark: Will the Center Hold?
As protests continue in Hong Kong, pro-Beijing forces threaten the movement for self-determination.
Empire by the Numbers
Guernica's staff collects some facts and figures on who has the power (and the money) in America today.
Zimri Yaseen: the puzzle box
Flash Fiction: she told me that at one i reached out and struck his closed right hand with my fat unsteady palm.
Courtney Moreno: An Ambulance in Los Angeles
Andrew Rose talks to Courtney Moreno about her new novel, the specter of PTSD, and hazing in medicine.
Rob Spillman: Politics and Apocalypse
Readpolitik The future worlds of David Mitchell and Emily St. John Mandel.
Sarah Shourd: Torture Chambers of the Mind
We think using harsh prison punishment makes us safer. It doesn’t.
Amy Butcher: Why It’s Called A Life Sentence
Kevin became interesting only after the night he walked me home, committed his crime, and called the police.
Bianca-Olivia Nita: Rewilding the Danube Delta
An environmental opportunity where the Danube River meets the Black Sea.
Kareem James Abu-Zeid: A Search for Justice and Expansive Identities
Nathalie Handal talks to Kareem James Abu-Zeid about translating the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish and conveying the layered politics and fluid identities found in his work.
Kaya Genç: Turkey’s Unofficial Referendum
On Sunday, Turkey will elect a president by direct popular vote for the first time, choosing between drastically different visions for their political system.
Atef Abu Saif: We’re OK in Gaza
Dispatch from Gaza: What is there to do but push back with a bit of stubborn strength, scratch at the thing with your bare fingernails, while your veins still have blood in them?
Chip Ward: The Original Geo-Engineers
How to save the iconic west from the cow.
Kevin Thomas: Books, Comics, and the Procrustean Bed
Andrew Rose interviews cartoonist/reviewer Kevin Thomas on distilling 1,000 pages into nine graphic panels.
Aditi Sriram: A Simile for Motherhood
A mother's bangles as a proxy for her presence, for her love.
Kevin Thomas: Horn! Reviews Edward St. Aubyn
A review of Lost For Words that's also a comic strip.
Ariel Dorfman: How to Forgive Your Torturer
The River Kwai passes through Latin America and Washington.
Eduardo Galeano: The World Turns Around a Spinning Ball
Choreographed War and Other Aspects of the World’s Greatest Game
Andrew Rose: Whitesplaining Tiananmen Square
On bridging the gap between Western fact and Chinese experience, twenty-five years after the June Fourth Incident.
Class in America: A Symposium
Class in America: Seven writers, editors, and thinkers discuss how class divides Americans today and what we can do to fix America's inequality problem.
Old Wine, Broken Bottle
Ari Shavit as harbinger of Israel’s new hard sell to American Jews.
All of These Things Look Just Like the Others
The more late night talk shows stick with white, male hosts, the more obsolete they become in today’s America.
Building in Verse
The inaugural poet on writing through cultural dualities, the pleasure of bilingualism, and why “the poem is a kind of mathematical proof.”
Official Histories
Veterans of Guatemala’s long civil war recover the secret archive of the National Police, pulling together the missing parts of the past.
Editors’ Picks: November Reads
A quarter-life crisis during Mardi Gras, the Soviet Union right after it crumbles, and the murders in Mexico in 1990s are definitely things to write home about. Or to write books about.
