The People of the State of California v. George W. Hall
the worst statutory interpretation case in history.
Hmong New Year
PBS
Larry Levan & Paradise Garage: “Maestro” (2003)
Featuring holy grail archive footage, “Maestro” unlocks the basement door to early underground club culture, from David Mancuso’s audiophile Loft parties to high priest Larry Levan and the church of…
Jimmy Carter
And native Americans
Working Class History E77-80: Italian resistance
A four-part podcast series on the Italian resistance to fascism, both during World War Two and immediately after, in conversation with anti-fascist partisans themselves.
Decolonize the Novel: Writing Against Western Strictures of Realism
In 2022 my debut novel, Border Less, was published in North America (7.13 Books) and South Asia (HarperCollins India), two spaces of diasporic life and aesthetic legacies that my fiction…
A New Hurston’s “Incomplete” Truths
Many writers have wondered, when embarking on a new project, what might happen should Fate intervene and prevent them from finishing. This isn’t the most pleasant thought, however, and for…
A Library Grows in Norway
On the outskirts of Oslo, just beyond the point where the city dissolves into forest, one thousand spruce saplings reach feathery green fingers toward the sky. Just over ten years…
The ‘Gentle Anarchy’ of the Muppets
Icky Gunk. Moldy Hay. Kermit. You might recognize one of these names. Before Kermit joined Miss Piggy and Big Bird, he was kicking it with Sam and Friends—a local TV…