Meara Sharma

Meara Sharma is a senior nonfiction editor for Guernica. As a journalist, her interests include religion, the environment, and cultural memory. She has produced radio for WNYC's On the Media and contributed to the New York Times, NPR, Matador, Studio 360, and elsewhere.

Alexis Okeowo: Everyday Africans Fighting Extremism

By November 13, 2017
The journalist on establishing emotional connection in interviews, and getting on with the business of living after trauma.

Siri Hustvedt: Both Sides of the Chasm

By April 3, 2017
The novelist and science writer on gender in publishing, the pleasures of neuroscience, and the necessity of rage.

Ron Shigeta: We All Need Biotechnology

By February 20, 2017
The biotech entrepreneur on using lab-grown food and other forms of biomimicry to solve global crises.

Eric Asimov on Oenophilia

By June 15, 2015
The New York Times chief wine critic on the perils of connoisseurship and the pleasure in discovering one’s personal taste.

A Non-Place by the Sea

By and December 23, 2014
When a storm destroyed Dhanushkodi, the government ordered it emptied. Fifty years later, we meet the people who stayed.

Gadadhara Pandit Dasa: What We Are Now, You Shall Be

By December 15, 2014

The Hare Krishna monk on cultural stereotypes, teaching faith through food, and America’s obsession with yoga.

Claudia Rankine on Blackness as the Second Person

By November 17, 2014

The National Book Award finalist on chronicling everyday racism, the violence inherent in language, and the continuum from Rodney King to Michael Brown.

Anthony Pinn on Divine Acquisition

By October 1, 2014

The scholar of African-American religion on black megachurches and the marketability of the American Dream.

Jane Black and Brent Cunningham: Servings of Small Change

By June 16, 2014

The food writers on building a food movement that transcends class lines.

Marcie Cohen Ferris: Salt of the Earth

By March 17, 2014

The Southern food historian on the politics of consumption, matzoh ball gumbo, and the multicultural “terroir” of the South.

Bryan Stevenson: Walking With the Wind

By March 17, 2014
The Alabama-based lawyer on who we talk about when we talk about the Old South, bringing 12 Years a Slave to Montgomery, and how his project to locate and mark the sites of slave markets speaks the language of Southern history.

Little Failures

By March 3, 2014

The satirist on drinking too much, learning to write through psychoanalysis, and making the switch to memoir.

Masha Gessen: Propaganda On Russia’s Own Shrinking Public Acceptance Space To Talk Of Reality

By February 3, 2014
The investigative journalist on anti-queer campaigns and the "catastrophe" of exile.

Deborah Solomon: Through The Looking Glass

By January 15, 2014
A new biography of Norman Rockwell casts light on the man who hid behind his finely wrought paintings.

After May Day

By September 16, 2013

On Occupy Wall Street’s second anniversary, revisiting the expectations and disappointments of the general strike meant to reignite the movement.

Bare-Knuckle Writing

By September 3, 2013

The acclaimed novelist & art critic on dismantling notions of gendered writing, the pleasures of translated texts, and “the clear divide between art and politics” in contemporary American fiction.

On Housesitting

By August 1, 2013

Passing keys, leaving notes.

Untold Stories

By July 1, 2013

New York Times bestseller Julia Scheeres discusses racial utopias, the mass "suicide" in Jonestown in 1978, and coming of age in an abusive Christian reform school.