Interview
“I’m trying to get people to be at ease with the incredible amount of variety in the United States.”
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“We will step to the edge of our humanity, expressing the commonalities that we all share, the threads that bind and connect us all.”
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“It’s really time for us to scrape off this cynicism and take a good hard look at what is happening in this country. There’s so much fakery and we don’t mind it.”
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“We’re at the end, or toward the end, of an extended collapse of the institutions that made it possible for many of us to make a living through intellectual or creative activity. We’ll have to find another way.”
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“Politics is driven by language, and America’s peculiar history has given oligarchs the language to undercut democracy.”
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“As artists, it’s our obligation to keep going. I really believe we have to push for the world to open up again.”
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The new album demonstrates just how versatile a singer/songwriter Mike Mattison really is.
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A comical version of Jane Austen is coming our way via Autumn de Wilde’s Emma.
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Gish Jen’s new novel asks, Is ambition worthwhile in a world without justice?
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Author Interview: Peniel E. Joseph on “The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.”
“Malcolm X and MLK evolved over time and came to converge in surprising ways. Malcolm’s movement for radical black dignity became a global human rights touchstone in a manner that made King’s struggle for radical black citizenship both necessary and more expansive.”
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