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The Old Future Is Gone, and Technology Won’t Bring It Back
Even as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that efforts to prevent ecological meltdown are approaching a “rapidly closing window” for action, the nations of the North are holding back, discussing instead the color of the curtains.
5 Questions with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Author of ABOLITION GEOGRAPHY: Essays Towards Liberation
If I had a shop now, I’d like it to be a version of George Padmore’s floating Pan African Congress: a solar-powered ship, not too big, that could meander from place to place — moving with The Common Wind as Julius Scott’s beautiful book showed us — and include a land-vehicle that could roll away from the shore.
5 Questions with Evan Kennedy, Author of METAMORPHOSES: City Lights Spotlight No. 22
Crucial to the book's exploration of identity's transience is the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita (Eknath Easwaran's translations and commentary). Another influence is Dead, the vocalist of black metal band Mayhem—the grain of his voice. He'd bury his clothes in his backyard, the Norwegian forest, and exhume them for concerts. Jackqueline Frost's poetry continually reorients me.
Atlanta’s “Cop City” and the Struggle for Climate Justice
By Stan Cox “In Real Time” is a monthly series on our blog by Stan Cox, author of The Path to a Livable Future and The Green New Deal and Beyond. The series follows the climate, voting rights, and justice movements as they navigate America’s...
5 Questions with Matthew Zapruder, Author of STORY OF A POEM: A Memoir
I have been writing poems again for the past months since I finished the prose book, and remembering once again how singular and intense that experience is with language. I think, yes, I will call that joy.
5 Questions with David Mas Masumoto, Author of SECRET HARVESTS: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm
It could help stories find the voices that should be heard, like authors who spent years researching and exploring a topic and how human nature and the natural world intersect, clash and hopefully find some path forward.
National Book Critics Circle Celebrates City Lights
"The most important thing that all of us who understand the power and the potential of books must confront: the atmosphere of intimidation and the attempt to control what we are able to read."
5 Questions with adrienne maree brown, Author of Maroons: A Grievers Novel
I would open a bookstore on a beach, it would be called Earthseed Reads and instead of a bestseller, the draw would be a rigged Free Library section where you could trade in whatever you just finished on the beach for another book and I would plant Black and sci fi excellence in there.
5 Questions with Joan Baez, Author of Am I Pretty When I Fly?: An Album of Upside Down Drawings
What is bringing me personally joy right now is finding my 80s to be a phenomenally creative decade.
Interview with Malay Roychoudhury, Poet of Hungryalism
"Residents of the area were stunned that I was being arrested for having written a poem."
