Category: First Person
The Talking Dead: Jia Tolentino and the Tradition ...
Posted by Arielle Isack | Jun 1, 2020 | Books, First Person | 0 |
Escape from New Jersey
Posted by Richard Dienst | Apr 4, 2020 | First Person | 0 |
The Victory of the Village Voice
Posted by Scott Malcomson | Sep 4, 2018 | Features, First Person | 1 |
The Germans Come Back to Psari
Posted by Bruce Robbins | Aug 28, 2018 | Features, First Person | 0 |
Confessions of a Race Traitor
Posted by James Livingston | Jun 6, 2018 | Features, First Person | 3 |
Dispatch from the NYC Protests
by Grayson Scott | Jun 13, 2020 | Commentary, First Person
A Dispatch from the New York City Protests, May 28th to 31st Grayson Scott I was born a few...
Read MoreMoratorium
by James Clifford | Jun 8, 2020 | First Person, Photo Essay
Download (PDF, Unknown)Santa Cruz in COVID time June 1, 2020 J. Clifford A historical materialist cannot do without the notion of a present which is not a transition, but in which time stands still and has come to a stop....
Read MoreIs Becomes Ought: The Mere Necessity of Socialism
by James Livingston | Jun 5, 2020 | Commentary, First Person, James Livingston: Politics and Letters
We’re now caught between despair and hope, resignation and purpose, facts and values, between the worst and the best of times, between our historical circumstance–what simply is–and our ethical principles–what...
Read MoreThe Talking Dead: Jia Tolentino and the Tradition of Women’s Talent
by Arielle Isack | Jun 1, 2020 | Books, First Person
Arielle Isack The first time I ever heard of Jia Tolentino was when an editor at our college...
Read MoreBefore and After the Fall
by James Livingston | Jun 1, 2020 | Commentary, First Person, James Livingston: Politics and Letters
50 years ago today, I fell 24 feet to my death. On that June 1st, I died to my old self, a lazy, drunken lout, an ex-jock frat boy who had recently been expelled from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on the grounds that...
Read MoreI Believe I Saw Donald Trump’s Chariot Today
by John McClure | May 12, 2020 | First Person
I believe I saw Trump today or at least his chariot. I was digging a long row of holes for dahlia tubers down on the farm–beautiful late morning, sun and clouds, wind, trees swaying around the edge of the field. Suddenly...
Read MoreEscape from New Jersey
by Richard Dienst | Apr 4, 2020 | First Person
Escape from New Jersey Last Saturday [March 28], when Trump announced that he wanted to throw a...
Read MoreOn Lenox Ave
by James Livingston | Mar 31, 2020 | City Sketches, Commentary, First Person, James Livingston: Politics and Letters
My girlfriend and I are holed up in Harlem, just south of its epicenter at 125thand Lenox Ave, a.k.a. Malcom X Blvd. Since there are no delivery dates available from any purveyor until far into next week (I write on March 31),...
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