Mallika Singh interviews poet and organizer Lupita Limón Corrales, whose new collection, ESTA BOCA ES MÍA, has now been published by nueoi press. Corrales's poems, Singh writes, are "a testament to the dissolution of self, to the collective voice." The post Love Spells, Dying Empires: A Conversation with Lupita Limón Corrales appeared first on Protean Magazine.| Protean Magazine
In "1981," poet mónica teresa ortiz presents a collage of cultural detritus and personal reflections, concluding with a fundamental question: "What if John Hinckley Jr. had been a better shot?"| Protean Magazine
Pranay Somayajula interrogates the insidious rhetorical tactics of far-right Hindutva ideologues like Indian PM Narendra Modi and the BJP and RSS, who tacitly sanction pogroms while staying at arm's length from the violence.| Protean Magazine
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Urvi Kumbhat reviews the new novel from author Vivek Shanbhag (trans. Srinath Perur). Originally written in southwest India's Kannada language, Sakina's Kiss has been republished in the U.S. by McNally. Trading keenly on romance tropes and genre signifiers, Shanbhag uses the figure of the class traitor to turn up bourgeois contradictions.| Protean Magazine
Kate Wagner's essay in Protean: Issue V explores the art and life of the Yugoslavian painter France Micheli , who was an interpreter of nature, ritual, and, in many ways, an interrogator of death. His introspective yet universalizing work, like his famous depictions of the folk deity Kurent, breath with fevered nightmares and inexhaustible richness.| Protean Magazine
In "i love you more than the law will let me," poet and journalist Jacqui Germain extols the barricade, the torched precinct, and the looted storefront as the highest expressions of revolutionary tenderness.| Protean Magazine
In May, NPR conducted a disastrous interview with Palestinian writer Yousri Al-Ghoul; here, Alex Foley follows up with Al-Ghoul about the interview and his life in Gaza. The post Yousri Al-Ghoul Talks Back appeared first on Protean Magazine.| Protean Magazine
In "We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices," Palestinian Feminist Collective member Amanda Najib offers a polyphonic narrative of motherhood in Palestine and the diaspora –– a generational struggle "to mother a child / while the world un-mothers itself." The post We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices appeared first on Protean Magazine.| Protean Magazine
In this deeply researched piece, Ben Nadler and Oksana Mironova explore the tactical and ideological parallels between the First Red Scare and the present targeting of Palestinian activists across the United States. The post Third Red Scare, Same as the First appeared first on Protean Magazine.| Protean Magazine
From Issue V: Philosopher, theorist, and critic Alberto Toscano reads the works of Italian thinkers and Jewish leftists Franco Fortini and Furio Jesi, who grappled with the ethical necessity of confronting Zionism. Toscano considers Zionisms of the past and present as ideologies that have "technicized” religio-historical myth. The post Zionism Breaks appeared first on Protean Magazine.| Protean Magazine
Writer and translator Alex Tan speaks to renowned Gazan poet Nasser Rabah on his new collection, Gaza: The Poem Said its Piece, selected and translated by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, and Khaled Al Hilli. The post To Gaza: An Interview with Nasser Rabah appeared first on Protean Magazine.| Protean Magazine
From Issue IV: Luke O'Neil's short story "Newburyport, MA" renders a memory in the timbre of modern experience, where diffuse horrors punctuate the everyday.| Protean Magazine