When long-haired androgynous creatures, flying over Delhi, begin to show up on Snapchat feeds and WhatsApp posts, military measures must be taken in this short story by Siddhartha Deb (@siddharthadeb.bsky.social). worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/ang...

New fiction that sadly seems relevant as India concocts a war with Pakistan.

“Every face, to us, became a window into a life unseen, whose story remained untold.” Amit R. Baishya interviews filmmaker Prateek Vats about his debut feature, Eeb Allay Ooo!, part of an emergent oeuvre of multispecies cinema from India. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/tra...

“The pipal stood beside the black, burning road like a protective god.” The road to Delhi is hot with a heat that is no respecter of persons in this short story by Vandana Singh. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/rik...

“I’m one of the good people,” I say as I drag an unaccompanied 4-year-old girl into an immigration court. “People will remember this as a *good* thing I’m doing. Not, like, evil.”

"Banana republic" has always been a projection.

“Atmo-terrorism” captures how elemental substances like air are changed by lethal elements like gas in the epoch of the Anthropocene. @amitbaishya.bsky.social discusses how the new novel by @siddharthadeb.bsky.social captures a quotidian index of slow violence.

On Jacobin radio on the links between the neoliberal order and the rise of the Hindu right.

We talk about why the South Asian novel can also be about Palestine, the Third World, BLM, and the oppressive architecture of oppressive nations.

New at PB, @amitbaishya.bsky.social interviews @siddharthadeb.bsky.social about his third novel “The Light at the End of the World” (Soho Press), which is both metaphorically and literally weird: “Nature” is both ruined and available for reading as ruins.

My interview with @siddharthadeb.bsky.social in Public Books. We talk about traditions of the weird, Walter Benjamin, Strugatsky brothers, the Anthropocene and a whole host of stuff: www.publicbooks.org/wings-angels...

In a first for the Ivy League school, Columbia's new officers have the same powers of warrantless search and arrest as any other police officer under New York law. The state law permits the officers to use "physical force and deadly physical force in making an arrest or preventing an escape."

The Rise and Rule of India’s Hindu Right: an interview with @siddharthadeb.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups. Part of Trump’s sweeping attack on the First Amendment. Also, Mahmoud Khalil is a Green Card holder and his wife is 8 months pregnant. www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detain...

What is the state for? Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social for a free virtual event NEXT WEEK, in conversation with Dr. Carmen Rojas through the @caseygrants.bsky.social Book Club. Wednesday, March 12 at 3 pm ET/ 12 pm PT Sign up here: tinyurl.com/2ykuxt5s

Berlin is a city of scenes, one of which has found itself under immense pressure as of late: Arab artists and intellectuals face backlash for voicing an opinion on Palestine or even minding their own business.

At the moment, at least!

"This is probably something you shouldn’t say out loud. But my thinking has become more that this is actually war with the state rather than anything else. Their tactics, the militarization used against students, the riot gear — yeah, this is war." hammerandhope.org/article/stud...

"There is everything to be gained from every refusal, from plain unwillingness to fall into line." Brilliant Mark Greif assessment of the assault on the bureaucracy. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Trump's mantra: *They* ruined America; *we* have to take it back. The “theys”, of course, are immigrants, whistleblowers, trans people, journalists, Democrats, civil servants. Hear how they are fighting back, in their own words, in our new cover package www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“What are writers and readers doing, and what should they be doing, to challenge or transcend Anglocentric literary culture?” Read our Issue Fourteen Dispatches, feat. @careybaraka.bsky.social, @siddharthadeb.bsky.social, @michaelbarron.bsky.social, and more: www.thedriftmag.com/somewhere-an...

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