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I Spent 10 Days in a Secret Chinese Covid Detention Centre

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 8, 2022November 11, 2022

“What I learnt when I was ‘taken away’ to an island quarantine facility in the middle of the night.”

A field of wind turbines just before sunrise
Posted inNonfiction

Tomorrow Isn’t Over: A Reading List About Brighter Futures

by Peter Hemminger April 22, 2022October 19, 2022

Hope may seem to be in short supply these days, but these stories dare to chart a course toward something better.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Extreme Heat Is Here, and It’s Deadly

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 2, 2020October 19, 2022

“For many, the present is already feeling pretty dystopian.” Arizona and regions across the U.S. are seeing record-high temperatures — and the heat will only intensify. At High Country News, Jessica Kutz reports that climate fiction, Indigenous architecture, and a robot named MaRTy are a few key things that can prepare us for a hotter […]

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quote Posts, Quotes

Korean Director Bong Joon-ho on How to Laugh in the Face of Horror

by Krista Stevens October 11, 2019October 19, 2022

Korean director Bong Joon-ho on his new film, Parasite

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Fiction, Story

A Mysterious Crack Appears: Past Trauma and Future Doom Meet in “Friday Black”

by Alana Mohamed November 14, 2018October 19, 2022

In Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s fantastical short story collection, the strangest fantasy of all is that people try to act morally in a corrupt world.

Posted inBusiness, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes, Travel

Trump Properties As Symbols of American Mediocrity and Lies

by Aaron Gilbreath March 16, 2018October 19, 2022

The only thing a tourist who stays at Trump properties gets for free is a disturbing vision of America’s future.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be Doing Now

by Longreads December 14, 2017October 19, 2022

Lynne Segal points out that if the dystopia is already here, then the utopia must be here too.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

Curiosity, Unfettered: Margaret Atwood as the Prophet of Dystopia

by Krista Stevens April 11, 2017October 19, 2022

Rebecca Mead’s profile in The New Yorker covers the resonance of The Handmaid’s Tale in Donald Trump’s America.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Handmaids Rising

by michelleweber March 28, 2017October 19, 2022

Margaret Atwood on what ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,” written in 1984, means in the age of Trump.

Big Brother is Watching You stencil graffiti
Posted inFiction, Quotes

The Trump Story Project

by Pam Mandel February 7, 2017October 19, 2022

Slate is running short stories by contemporary writers based in an imagined “Trump’s America.”

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