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Slow Violence, Then and Now

…Agent Orange. Slow violence is pertinent to environmental justice because the incremental unfolding of threats to human and environmental health is experienced unequally by wealthy and impoverished communities. Time can…

As Real as They Are Magical

entire village, who cleanse themselves by drinking her tears (“Restored”). A married couple adopts a miniature refugee, small enough to sleep on an ice cube (“From Hiemslandia”). Spirits, aliens, and…

The Collateral Consequences of Hubris

…often-destructive allure of wealth, and the perils of noblesse oblige. Short version: It’s a cross between The Great Gatsby, Brideshead Revisited, and All the King’s Men. Chapter 16: What makes…

Radical Joy

Alice Randall’s fifth novel, Black Bottom Saints, is the fictional last will and testament of a real-life Motor City culture maven, Joseph “Ziggy” Johnson, who emceed at storied show clubs,…

The Whole of a Life

Alto, debating Dickinson and Romantic poets Keats and Shelley (whom Jimmy calls “Sheets and Kelly”). Like her peers Denis Johnson and Tim O’Brien, Mason was shaped by the Vietnam War…

Lucille’s Better Half

…He wasn’t Robert Johnson of crossroads soul-selling fame. He wasn’t Skip James or Mississippi John Hurt, who cut early classic sides, disappeared for decades, and then were rediscovered as real-life…

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