The multi-prize-winning author talks about dissecting 1970s Britain in her new book, the “loathsome” idea that motherhood is incompatible with writing, and why stutterers make good novelists.

The New Yorker journalist on the decadence of Washington, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley; institutional decay; and the widening gulf between rich and poor in America.

Larissa Sansour explores the Palestinian condition by using science fiction in her films and photography.

Why high wages are good for the economy and right-wing diatribes are not.

A recent exhibit in Barcelona showcased the Chilean author’s unpublished manuscripts and demonstrated how much more there is to learn about his work.

Wishing for the Syrian civil war to be a revolution doesn’t make it so.

It’s rude to stare, but worth it.

Even if America attacks, the impact will be minimal.

The multi-award winning writer on immigration reform, returning to Haiti in her new book, and why Wikipedia is still “micro-categorizing women writers.”

Performance as Play: Children Pursuing Their Calling.

Visiting Assistant Professorship and Other Loose Associations.

At the Museum of Modern Art, Evans’s iconic photographs are seen in a new, fuller context.

The philosopher and author of Immortality talks with Susan Neilson about elixirs of life, the fallacy of the singularity, and why we should all get up early to meditate on our inevitable demise.

On Chelsea Manning and the prices of disclosure.

The Pratt Manhattan Gallery showcases design that’s meant to disrupt.

With guests ranging from Dorothy Parker to Frank Sinatra, Alla Nazimova’s estate was, for a time, both Hollywood’s social nexus and a hotbed of radical politics.

A trip to an Omani town provides opportunity for reflection.

A look at the carefree travel guys and the lost-and-lonely journeywomen who populate the road-movie genre.

Despite post-traumatic stress and opposition from two presidential administrations, a former USAID employee has helped resettle hundreds of Iraqis whose work for coalition forces brought threats on their lives.

Ezra Pound’s slogan was itself the product of historical recycling.

Censorship and freedom of speech in Sri Lanka, India, China, Burma, and England.

Can I, siren, laugh once more with the people I love?

The formerly blacklisted writer talks about censorship under the Gadhafi regime, seeking asylum in Ireland, and why culture in Tripoli is now “as important as food and water.”

An Iranian writer finds meaning and meaninglessness in the fact of her Jewish roots.

At this year's Gay Pride march in Paris, homophobia has its own flag.

The “super-agent” talks about finding success with messy, difficult books, re-thinking how we publish works in translation, and the advice she gives to authors---no hotel porn on book tours.

A firefighter reflects on flames, family, and migration in the deserts between Arizona and Mexico.

The teen crime ring that robbed Hollywood’s starlets, and the infinite media loops who love them.

President Obama, drone warfare, and the self-mystifying glories of American exceptionalism.

The path to disaster.

The latest victory in a long-standing push to deny cities the power to regulate guns.

The Poet’s Metaphor and the Styrofoaming of the Waters.

The artist’s new retrospective finds a midpoint between text and structure, narrative and image.

Looking back at Norman Mailer, Diane Arbus, Tom Wolfe, and the magazine that brought them all together.

You’ve never liked spring, as if its optimism, that sense of opportunity, is something you can never match.

From walking libraries and a god named “Word” to what Sherlock Holmes never said.

Guernica's staff recommends collections of stories, essays, poems, and more.

The author of Small Porcelain Head on how poetry can help us mourn.

Colson Whitehead on labels in literature, wearing genre drag, and getting lost in New York.

Guernica has big plans for the rest of 2013 and beyond, and your support will be crucial as we invest in the next writers and artists who will challenge, inspire, and provoke you.

The author of The Love Song of Jonny Valentine talks to Matthew McAlister about the publishing industry, narrative forms, and the nature of child stardom in the digital age.

Wages keep dropping and government debt keeps growing. Simply arguing "more" won’t cut it.

"We Went Back: Photographs from Europe, 1933 - 1956": Chim at the International Center of Photography

Hockey’s toughest tradition is harder to support than ever.

Alexander Landfair talks with a poet equally enthusiastic about Wuthering Heights and Resident Evil.

As the Supreme Court prepares to conference on same-sex marriage, a phonebanker reflects on hip-hop lyrics, missionary work, and what a conversation has to do to change a mind.

A long-lived artists’ squat in Paris’s Twentieth Arrondissement on the eve of eviction.

What Abigail Fisher’s affirmative action case is really about.

A look inside the courtroom on the opening day of Floyd v. NYC, the class-action lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy.

Welcome spring with this round of reading recommendations from the editors at Guernica.

There’s a framework for peace in Congo, and if Rwanda will stop interfering, it just might work.

And what we’ve lost.

Two figures challenge simple ways of thinking about slavery and agency.

Waterboarding Americans and the Redefinition of Torture

In Mali’s fight against extremists, women’s freedoms—not Islam—is the central issue.

The impossible and necessary vision of Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani

Some stories of love, passion, and sex to get you through the winter.

Washington’s dilemma on a 'lost' planet.

Pankaj Mishra’s new book, From the Ruins of Empire: The intellectuals who remade Asia, has one eye on the history of the East and one eye on its future.

Holiday celebrations in a Yemeni village defy the country’s reputation.

Our investigation of the most popular trend in 'vaginal rejuvenation' continues.

An investigation of the most popular trend in the field of 'vaginal rejuvenation' surgery.

The Mary Ryan Gallery features the work of artist and radical Hugo Gellert.

Growing up in Kashmir, in proximity to death.

How should the writer respond to social media?

Water scarcity and local action in the pueblos jóvenes of Peru.

Amid violence and devastation, a thriving, transgressive music.

From the CIA’s hunt for Bin Laden to an East German doctor’s search for an escape, 2012 was an excellent year in film.

Flash Fiction: But I have had the feeling for awhile that the end of the world isn’t necessarily a large tidal wave that will wipe out the entirety of the United States, or a huge volcanic eruption, but that the end of the world could be any day for anyone.

Flash Fiction: Here, we pass from time to time and nod. It’s so hard to hold on.

Sure, forced abortions are oppressive, but so is not being able to breathe.

A young writer learns to be alone in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

The staff's favorite independent booksellers offer their own December recommendations.

On how a sense of “disquiet” can enrich American fiction, and why traveling is like taking acid.

Why the War on Drugs is a War on Human Nature.

Getting the commons into school curriculum will help students understand climate change (and a lot more).

An antique weapons dealer in Kabul collects Kalashnikovs and nostalgia.

How American Indian identity is reflected in pop culture.

"Toxic Beauty," a retrospective at NYU’s Grey Gallery, brings together the writing and visual work of an extraordinarily socially engaged artist.

The fantasy of girl-on-girl violence underlying the Petraeus scandal.

Guernica's staff on the books they'll remember this Thanksgiving.

A timely reminder of the consequences of treating corporations as people.

The scientific community is largely united on the dangers of climate change, so why is no one listening?

A look inside Pamela Geller’s 9/11 "Stop Islamization of Nations" conference reveals apocalyptic language, racial paranoia, and surprising links to the political mainstream.

Can we balance free speech and privacy with basic decency in online communities?

It's the first anniversary of the Occupy movement, and there is much to look forward to.

War has become a sort of American monopoly--but the American people don't seem to know, or care.

Newly minted Oxford American editor Roger D. Hodge discusses the role of an editor, finding a form, and the newsstand's allure.

In the wake of New York Fashion Week, former model Jennifer Sky calls for the inclusion of models in the SAG-AFTRA union and an end to the exploitation of underage workers.

Despite what Kakutani says, Smith’s new novel is not "Mrs. Dalloway Lite."

With penalties laughably low, what should we expect but continued criminal activity on the part of corporations?