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PEN Ten with Chris Abani
Writers and storytellers as a whole are curators of our common humanity. This is difficult because we curate not just the good, but also the bad, the totality that… More
Egypt: The Fanatic Heart
It occurred to me that what I needed was to know all I could find about the word “fanaticism,” in a capsule. Lately, I find myself resorting more and… More
Elegy with Crop-Duster
a great big nothingness happening / from field to canal / from canal to the fields beyond // power lines criss-crossing the formlessness of grief . . . The… More
Favorite Books of 2013 | MoJo Staff Pics
We end the Favorite Books of 2013 series with a list created by the PEN award-winning Mother Jones' staff, including everything from "religion and geopolitics to twisted artwork and… More
Um Girassol da Cor do Seu Cabelo
Sometimes you have to stare a hundred times before an image sticks, before you understand half of what’s hidden there, still living, behind the snapshot. Uncle Pedro used to… More
Favorite Books of 2013 | Poetry from Slate
We are inluding a list of the best 2013 poetry published earlier this month in Slate, carefully curated by Jonathan Farmer. At least once a decade, the conversation about poetry gets… More
Seven Mind Blowing Articles on Digital Freedom
2013 has been a busy year for human rights and digital technologies. Every day, it seems, new technological developments and scandals promise to dramatically change the human rights landscape.… More
Favorite Books of 2013 | New York Times
The New York Times assembled a list of 2013's 10 best books, a combination of both fiction and non-fiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book… More
Surveillance: An Innocent Fiction?
Science fiction has long explored the possibility and implications of government omniscience resulting from ever-expanding state surveillance powers. But it's not just Orwell and Kafka—writers throughout history and across… More
A Song Called Shudder
Whose passions but your own startled you / yelling up to a window at night / for a love to come to the glass / & down the stairs?… More