Armistice Day in the Virtual Trenches
Until the Last Dog Is Hung
Indulge the Other
E Pluribus Unum
Ed Winstead talks to artist José Parlá about his new short film and finding unity through art.
Tearing Down the Walls
A new film takes a novel approach to Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset's life and legacy.
Approaching Donald Judd
An exhibition of the artist's Cor-ten steel sculptures offers a meditative experience.
Tavares Strachan: The Breaking is the Fixing
The artist discusses his new show on the chemist Rosalind Franklin, the nature of history, and the role of the internet in dismantling colonial legacies.
Roslyn Bernstein: Museum as Laboratory
A new exhibition in Pittsburgh explores the modernist past of the city's architecture, and the way forward.
Green Thumbs in the Motor City
Boundaries of Nature: Huge swaths of Detroit have been surrendered to the wild. What happens when we try to take them back?
Empire of Sighs
The talking heads are giving us bad information. So why are we still listening?
On a Strange Roof, Thinking of Home
Toward a definition of Southern literature that goes beyond twang.
Guernica Films: Measure of a Life
Face-to-face with survivors of one of the most infamous drone strikes in Pakistan.
Krazy Komic
One hundred years later, why is George Herriman’s Krazy Kat still so radical?
Heaven, Hell, and Earth
Mental health, spiritual healers, and the hidden afterlife of war in Sierra Leone.
Thomas Larson: Writing Seen, Writing Spoken
E-readers, texting, book trailers, and Twitter are not only changing the possibilities for writing, but also what it means to be a writer.
Nafeesa Syeed: Setting Down Roots in Istanbul’s Gezi Park
Protestors in Istanbul are settling in to Gezi park, where the demonstrations across Turkey began.
Matthew McAlister: Criminally Underappreciated
Georges Simenon might be the best French-language novelist you've never heard of.
Katie Ryder: The Truth About Religious Freedom and the ACA
Your right to swing your fist in religious practice ends when your fist reaches my nose, or uterus.
Elisa Wouk Almino: Animating and Dismantling the Monuments of War
Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection
Anne McClintock: Too Big to See with the Naked Eye
Aerial photos from Greenland take climate change out of the realm of abstraction.
Nathaniel Flagg: Apocalypse Illustrated
A cartoon history of End Times that weren't.
Mikey Angelo Rumore: Culture and Disquiet in Lisbon
Anti-austerity protests in Portugal highlight a complex culture, at once nativist and transnational.
Nora Connor: Learning to Fly
Two women bridge the military-civilian gap to talk about machine guns and womanliness, dealing with trauma, and breaking old rules.
Nafeesa Syeed: Salvaged History
An outsider works to restore an abandoned chateau in historic Burgundy.
C.D. Wright: The Obstacle Worth Engaging
The poet C.D. Wright discusses book-length works, the political in art, and more.
Kaya Genç: Ian McEwan’s Sweet Tooth
McEwan's new novel raises questions of artistic independence.
Nick Turse: America’s Nation-Building
The United States is in the midst of a tremendous building spree, but it isn't happening in America.
Avi Kramer: The Fine Print
To get Internet access in my apartment I had to give up my legal rights.
You probably did too.
Andrew Ross: The Debt Resistor’s Operations Manual
Natasha Lewis speaks with Strike Debt member, professor, and author Andrew Ross.
Angela Boskovitch and Laura Silvia Battaglia: Operation Iraqi Cinema
The Baghdad International Film Festival is part of a larger effort to bring the arts back to Iraq’s once-flourishing capital.
Joseph Gergel: Nigerian Nostalgia Project
A massive collection of pre-digital photography shows a nation in transition—and manages bring Facebook-level connectivity into a gallery space.
Medina Dugger: Images from Underground
Young Lagosian photographers examine the corners of their city that often go unseen.
Glenna Gordon: LagosPhoto 2012
A month-long photography festival aims to capture the spirit of one of Africa’s biggest and busiest cities.
Casey Michel: California’s Death Penalty Decision
Those in favor of ending capital punishment in California have dramatically outspent their opponents and gathered celebrity endorsements from Joan Baez to Bill O’Reilly, but the race is too close to call. How one notorious criminal might swing the vote on Prop 34.
Jennifer Sky: Faith and Politics in the Sunshine State
Ballot initiatives in Florida are bringing God into politics.
Alexia Nader: Literary Miami
The broad strokes of Tom Wolfe’s Back to Blood and the subtle specificity of Joan Didion’s Miami.
Rebecca Solnit: Our Words Are Our Weapons
Our political language is in desperate need of a change.
Melissa Seley: Giant Intimacy in a Tiny Auditorium–The 2012 PEN Awards
Writers, editors, and translators gather to remember Hitchens, honor culture, and experience elephant happiness.
Tom Engelhardt: Democratic Mockpocalypse
This year's presidential campaign is bigger and louder than anything we've ever seen before.
Tomas Hachard: Denis Côté’s Animal Instincts
Bestiaire’s place in the filmmaker’s oeuvre and anthropomorphic conceptions.
Humera Afridi: Malala Yousufzai and the Bonesetter’s Alchemy
On girls, shame, healing what’s broken, and why education is the path to creating an honorable Pakistan.
Roslyn Bernstein: Okwui Enwezor Traces the Struggle of Apartheid
A visit with the curator of “Rise and Fall of Apartheid” shows how photographers revealed South Africans’ struggles to the world.
Abigail Nehring: Voices in the Sky
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s installation combines searchlights, cityscapes, and crowd-sourced voices, challenging the way we conceive of participatory art.
Jay Walljasper: The Surprise Behind Detroit’s Emerging Comeback
Young people are making a difference in the cities they call home.
Marilyn Hacker: The Paradox of Translation
The prolific translator talks with Guernica’s poetry editor about her work ethic, contemporary Morocco, and what connects poetry with journalism.
Michael T. Klare: The New “Golden Age of Oil” That Wasn’t
Forecasts of oil abundance collide with planetary realities.
Sherman Alexie: The Value of Subverting Authority
Banned Books: The acclaimed author speaks about what motivates his censors, self-censorship, and the value of stories.
James M. Decker: Henry Miller’s Pyrrhic Victory
Banned Books Week: Though Miller defeated censorship, his work was misunderstood and cartoonishly simplified
Katherine Paterson: The Risks of Great Literature
Banned Books Week: The celebrated and banned children’s book author speaks with us about the fears of censors, the deaths of children, and what we need to risk for literature.
Alice Walker: Writing What’s Right
Banned Books Week: The author of The Color Purple (and one of America’s most censured writers) tells Megan Labrise about finding wisdom in the songs of ancestors, why her acclaimed novel won’t be translated into Hebrew, and approaching writing in a priestly state of mind.
Katie Ryder: Banned Books Week
Next Week, the Guernica Daily will feature interviews and essays in support of free thinking, reading, and writing.
Seth Rosenfeld: On the Stifling of Dissent
The author talks with Natasha Lewis about his new book Subversives: the FBI's War on Student Radicals and Reagan's Rise to Power.
More Than You Can Chew
What the all-you-can-eat buffet tells us about misguided nostalgia, overcoming privation, and the RNC.
Noam Chomsky Comments on the “Kill List”
Guernica Editor in Chief Joel Whitney tracked down Noam Chomsky to get his opinion on the President's recently revealed 'kill list.'
