Readings

Day-to-day, I, a queer Native person leaping around this deeply stolen and homophobic land, try to lessen the ambient tensions floating in my air. Now I had to do the opposite.

Extraordinary as it may seem, Stalin’s 21st-century comeback is so ordinary it’s almost on time—and it reveals the complicated legacy of Russia’s relationship with history, authority, and the USSR.

"The supermarket is very crowded."

The author of Stay With Me on how stories find you, remembering both sides of a proverb, and discovering your characters. 

It’s a far sexier prospect to meet with a clairvoyant for fifty minutes than to sift through a year’s worth of all your broken-hearted mind-junk in therapy.

A collection of baby names is like a taxonomy of hope, a kind of catechism for future lives scattered over the horizon.

The author of News from the Red Desert on the desire for action, the futility of violence and capturing the truth of conflict through fiction. 

Jonathan Glazer's lush, romantic take on the gangster movie, Sexy Beast, uses the simplest of moments to build its sense of dread: a warm day, a clear pool, a frosty beer.

I thought baseball would become political in 2017, but it only absorbed the frazzled, babbling-lunatic tenor of the country at large—which gives me hope for the game’s future.