The artist Jonathan Horowitz takes on presidential politics, again.

Ed Winstead talks to artist José Parlá about his new short film and finding unity through art.

A new film takes a novel approach to Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset's life and legacy.

An exhibition of the artist's Cor-ten steel sculptures offers a meditative experience.

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.

A new exhibition in Pittsburgh explores the modernist past of the city's architecture, and the way forward.

Boundaries of Nature: Huge swaths of Detroit have been surrendered to the wild. What happens when we try to take them back?

The talking heads are giving us bad information. So why are we still listening?

Toward a definition of Southern literature that goes beyond twang.

Face-to-face with survivors of one of the most infamous drone strikes in Pakistan.

The landscape of human impact.

One hundred years later, why is George Herriman’s Krazy Kat still so radical?

Mental health, spiritual healers, and the hidden afterlife of war in Sierra Leone.

E-readers, texting, book trailers, and Twitter are not only changing the possibilities for writing, but also what it means to be a writer.

Protestors in Istanbul are settling in to Gezi park, where the demonstrations across Turkey began.

Georges Simenon might be the best French-language novelist you've never heard of.

Your right to swing your fist in religious practice ends when your fist reaches my nose, or uterus.

Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Abraham Lincoln: War Veteran Projection

Aerial photos from Greenland take climate change out of the realm of abstraction.

A cartoon history of End Times that weren't.

Anti-austerity protests in Portugal highlight a complex culture, at once nativist and transnational.

Two women bridge the military-civilian gap to talk about machine guns and womanliness, dealing with trauma, and breaking old rules.

An outsider works to restore an abandoned chateau in historic Burgundy.

The poet C.D. Wright discusses book-length works, the political in art, and more.

She may be the perfect pop-culture koan.

McEwan's new novel raises questions of artistic independence.

The United States is in the midst of a tremendous building spree, but it isn't happening in America.

To get Internet access in my apartment I had to give up my legal rights.
You probably did too.

Natasha Lewis speaks with Strike Debt member, professor, and author Andrew Ross.

The Baghdad International Film Festival is part of a larger effort to bring the arts back to Iraq’s once-flourishing capital.

A massive collection of pre-digital photography shows a nation in transition—and manages bring Facebook-level connectivity into a gallery space.

Young Lagosian photographers examine the corners of their city that often go unseen.

A month-long photography festival aims to capture the spirit of one of Africa’s biggest and busiest cities.

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.

Ballot initiatives in Florida are bringing God into politics.

The broad strokes of Tom Wolfe’s Back to Blood and the subtle specificity of Joan Didion’s Miami.

Our political language is in desperate need of a change.

Writers, editors, and translators gather to remember Hitchens, honor culture, and experience elephant happiness.

This year's presidential campaign is bigger and louder than anything we've ever seen before.

Bestiaire’s place in the filmmaker’s oeuvre and anthropomorphic conceptions.

On girls, shame, healing what’s broken, and why education is the path to creating an honorable Pakistan.

A visit with the curator of “Rise and Fall of Apartheid” shows how photographers revealed South Africans’ struggles to the world.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s installation combines searchlights, cityscapes, and crowd-sourced voices, challenging the way we conceive of participatory art.

Young people are making a difference in the cities they call home.

The prolific translator talks with Guernica’s poetry editor about her work ethic, contemporary Morocco, and what connects poetry with journalism.

Forecasts of oil abundance collide with planetary realities.

Banned Books: The acclaimed author speaks about what motivates his censors, self-censorship, and the value of stories.

Banned Books Week: Though Miller defeated censorship, his work was misunderstood and cartoonishly simplified

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.

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.

Next Week, the Guernica Daily will feature interviews and essays in support of free thinking, reading, and writing.

The author talks with Natasha Lewis about his new book Subversives: the FBI's War on Student Radicals and Reagan's Rise to Power.

What the all-you-can-eat buffet tells us about misguided nostalgia, overcoming privation, and the RNC.

Guernica Editor in Chief Joel Whitney tracked down Noam Chomsky to get his opinion on the President's recently revealed 'kill list.'