American

American

Soul Proprietor

by Daniel Genis,

From Sentence, a memoir, which will be published next month by Viking. The entire time I was in prison, I owned a typewriter, and it was on this typewriter that…

Narco in Chief

by Andrew Cockburn,

How America enables corruption in Honduras

These Precious Days

by Ann Patchett,

Tell me how the story ends

Mother Knows Best

From a lawsuit filed by Devin Nunes, a U.S. representative from California, against the Twitter user Devin Nunes’ Mom, whose identity is unknown. Nunes has denied the claims made by…

False Dawn

by Khadijah Queen,

A zuihitsu from the early months of the pandemic

False Dawn

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Khadijah Queen on July 31, 2020

The constant surprise of COVID-19

From actions since 2006 taken by American companies and institutions to appease China. Censored music that refers to the Tiananmen Square massacreCanceled a lecture on women’s rightsRemoved an app that…

The Beast in Me

by Allen Ginsberg,

From South American Journals, a collection of Ginsberg’s spiritual writing published last month by the University of Minnesota Press. This entry is the author’s account of an ayahuasca experience in…

Whiteout

by Kevin Baker,

This past spring and summer, political correctness—perhaps inevitably—took a full turn and became a campaign to erase the worst things that dead white men have done in our history. This…

A Play with No End

by Christopher Ketcham,

What the Gilets Jaunes really want

A Flag for Trump’s America

by Jeff Sharlet,

The power of strength

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Soul Proprietor

Narco in Chief

These Precious Days

Mother Knows Best

False Dawn

False Dawn

As You Wish

The Beast in Me

Whiteout

A Play with No End

A Flag for Trump’s America