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Megan Cummins is the managing editor of Public Books. She is the author of the story collection If the Body Allows It, which was awarded the 2019 Prairie| Public Books
Megan Cummins is the managing editor of Public Books. She is the author of the story collection If the Body Allows It, which was awarded the 2019 Prairie| Public Books
When I was fourteen, a friend invited me to stay a week with his family on the Outer Banks. What I remember most vividly about that week is a book. The post Two Ways of Disliking Poetry appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
One of Arendt’s most surprising insights is that professing “love for the X people” may be a way to foreclose on freedom and on humanity just as effectively as professing “hatred for the Y people.” The post Arendt’s Refugee Politics appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
Before the book’s publication, no one, it seemed, wanted to talk about abortion publicly. But something changed with when the book finally arrived in 1966. The post After “Abortion”: A 1966 Book and the World That It Made appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
Actor Shia LaBeouf got a real-life ending like that of his film character: Go continue to be a predator. The post Unhappy Halloween: “Disturbia” and the Endless Horror of Domestic Violence appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
Do you find child narrators–their perceptiveness as well as their misprisions, their loyalties, their prejudices–endlessly absorbing? The post B-Sides: Rebecca West’s “The Fountain Overflows” appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
“I am a novelist first and a historian second. That’s how the tension you mention resolves itself: I know I’m trying to tell a story.” The post The Past as a Site of Radical Otherness in Nishant Batsha’s “A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart” appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
The only way to really understand the term is to sit down and watch the harrowing psychological film from which it got its name. The post The Lost Ending of “Gaslight” That You Didn’t Know You Needed appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
“I came to translating de Chirico very much by accident.”| Public Books
As we follow the camera’s quiet, careful study, we observe—as Fred Moten reflects—that the slave ship also contains the means of its own undoing. The post “Radical Powers of Metamorphosis”: On Global Black Cinema appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
As in Conrad, even when characters think they understand the dynamics of Leonard Woolf’s jungle, they really don’t. The post B-Sides: Leonard Woolf’s “The Village in the Jungle” appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
Policymakers and institutional leaders seeking to preserve higher education’s functionality should consider the enrollment and completion rates of Black and Hispanic men.| Public Books
Geraldo Cadava is a professor of history and Latina and Latino studies at Northwestern University. Before becoming coeditor in chief of Public Books, he| Public Books
“Dahomey” narrates the Danxomèan treasures’ epic journey home. And yet, the film remains haunted by the visible and invisible human labor that made this homecoming—and its cinematic telling—possible.| Public Books
Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose bordering practices.| Public Books
“The Austen biography space is fairly saturated and covered. But there’s still a lot more we can learn by seeing her in context: that is, by seeing Austen in relation to her society, her family, her friends.”| Public Books
Should satirical art have equal measures of heart?| Public Books
Playbills, programs, tickets: such physical documents are no longer part of seeing a show on Broadway. Does it matter?| Public Books
