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A Poetics of Living Rebellion – Public Books

It began, as such things often do, with a strike. On November 2, 1970—a mere 10 months before the Attica prison rebellion—men incarcerated at Auburn prison refused to work on Black Solidarity Day. When Auburn’s warden retaliated…

Reality, as Seen by Godzilla – Public Books

My first encounter with the monster were VHS recordings of Saturday movie marathons of the dubbed Godzilla movies of the 1960s and 1970s. Six years old, I was awed to watch giant creatures laying waste to cities and armies in slightly…

In Defense of Imagination – Public Books

In his short story “The Paper Menagerie,” Ken Liu makes a case for imagination’s value: for its innate significance and material power. I teach “The Paper Menagerie” every year in my introduction to literary studies course at West…

Is the World Enough? – Public Books

It was 1968, and the “battle to feed all of humanity” had already been lost. In the coming 1970s, soaring populations and finite global resources would lead hundreds of millions of people to starve to death. Or so prophesized Paul and…

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