This is the latest installment of Public Streets, an urban observation series created by Ellis Avery and curated by Abigail Struhl. The descent by plane into Jakarta begins after views of the muddy oxbows of South... Read more »
A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month. The post On Our Nightstands: July 2021 appeared first on Public Books. Source link Read more »
What does a map of the future look like? Plotting the historical coordinates of dispossession, it is clear where the ongoing project of the dispossession of Native sovereignty entangles with African enslavement... Read more »
Public Books and the Sydney Review of Books have partnered to exchange a series of articles with international concerns. Today’s article, “Sublime Neutrality,” by Ursula Robinson-Shaw, was originally published by the SRB on July 10,... Read more »
When I first met Professor Sarah Derbew, we bonded over our mutual love of music. Coincidentally, we had both spent our mornings looping “Boogie Wonderland” to get in the right headspace for... Read more »
The Weight of the World Oh, how they blew like vast sails in the breeze,my mother’s wet sheets, pegged hard to the ropeof her washing line. There was always hopeof dry weather... Read more »
Cambridge University Library will soon be asked to return Scotland’s oldest surviving manuscript. SNP councillor Glen Reid plans to write to the university in the new year to “begin a dialogue” about... Read more »
When the writer Susie Boyt was twenty years old, her boyfriend died in a climbing accident. After the funeral, Boyt went through severe depression, struggling with a grief that she couldn’t readily... Read more »