Group identity Archives

Group identity

Group Think

From Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ’n’ Roll Group, by Ian F. Svenonius, to be published in January by Akashic Books. Svenonius was the front man for several bands,…

Who Will Tell the People?

by Russell Banks,

On waiting, still, for the great Creole-American novel

The dialects of faith

by Thomas Lynch,

The Left, Lost in the Politics of Identity

by Todd Gitlin,

Adapted from “From Universality to Difference: Notes on the Fragmentation of the Idea of the Left.” Originally appeared in the Winter 1993 issue of Contention: Debates in Society, Culture, and…