Andrew Zingg reconnects with his grandfather's bossa nova legacy through Alfredinho Jacinto Melo's influential club Bip-bip in Rio de Janeiro.
Essays
Skimming the Surface: A Way of Looking at Us
Eisa Ulen looks at Jordan Peele's "Us" and compares it to Spike Lee's 1989 "Do the Right Thing."
When Did Asian Food Become Dirty?
Marie Myung-Ok Lee discusses the opening of a white-run "clean" Chinese restaurant in Manhattan.
Two Alices and Political Produce
"France has a way of enticing Californian women who love to cook." Chloe Chappe on Alice Waters and Alice B. Toklas.
On WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
Donald Boström recounts his interactions with Julian Assange in the early 2010s and gives his thoughts on the WikiLeaks founder's legal controversies.
Fantasy Girls
Rachel Feder discusses Mary Shelley, Margaret Cavendish, and the fraught title of "mother of science fiction."
Coming for Us: Primo Levi and the Border Patrol
Novelist and Professor Fenton Johnson responds to an intrusion by the US Border Patrol into the University of Arizona campus.
N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn and Settler Colonial Language
Robert Wood examines the deep multilingualism of N. Scott Momaday’s "House Made of Dawn."
The Historical Revisionism of a Clash of Civilizations
Harrison Akins examines the false narrative of the "clash of civilizations" between the Christian and Islamic worlds.
What a Jewish Person Looks Like
Joanna Chen ponders the relation between Irish nationalism and Zionism.
