The Stamped and How to Be an Antiracist author on the superpower he’d like to have, the outlets he likes to read, and his latest work, Chain of Ideas.
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Jeff Mills Loves to Forget
“How techno’s most vaunted architect is still building sonic futures.”
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Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here
“I remain hopeful partly as defiance.”
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Julian Brave NoiseCat
The author of We Survived the Night and co-director of Sugarcane responds to our 25 questions on writing, reading, and creativity.
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Rebecca Solnit
The author of The Beginning Comes After the End talks about jackrabbits, her own “informational hypervigilance,” and the one word she won’t stop using.
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George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You
“He’s as flawed a human being as anyone else, one who’s still wrestling with questions about how best to move through life with a modicum of grace and compassion.”
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What If the Economy Was Modeled After Ecology?
“By treating economies as living systems, we can build financial frameworks that regenerate rather than exploit.”
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What Happened to Cameron Crowe? He Has Answers.
“Life is the best writer, and sometimes you have to let life show you a little bit of what that is.”
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Arundhati Roy on How to Survive in a “Culture of Fear”
“Those of us who’ve been very unsafe as children, we seek out the unsafe. We seek out the lack of security, and if you have security, you blow it up.”
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Sister Inquiry
“The Pelly twins on music, writing, and life beyond algorithms.”