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Elias Rodriques
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Repped by Jin Auh at Wylie. Novel, All the Water I've Seen is Running. Words in The Guardian, The Nation, and elsewhere.
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Elias Rodriques @rodriquese.bsky.social · 9h
Now out from behind paywall: I wrote about art under authoritarianism and the cancellation of the art exhibit of Andil Gosine for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/essays/lifetime-achievement/
Lifetime Achievement | Elias Rodriques
Trump was — and is — intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent. I asked Andil to meet that weekend, and h...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16d
"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka

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"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka - emptywheel
Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · Sep 11
“I had studied art and writing that was—and I mean this literally, fully aware of the irony, given the past decade’s hand-wringing over political correctness—canceled.” In n+1’s brand-new issue: @rodriquese.bsky.social on art and freedom under Trump.
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Lifetime Achievement | Elias Rodriques
Trump was — and is — intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent. I asked Andil to meet that weekend, and h...
www.nplusonemag.com
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Elias Rodriques @rodriquese.bsky.social · Sep 10
I wrote about the cancellation of Andil Gosine's exhibit and art censorship under Trump for @nplusonemag.com. Read here: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
Lifetime Achievement | Elias Rodriques
Trump was — and is — intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent. I asked Andil to meet that weekend, and h...
www.nplusonemag.com
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · Sep 10
n+1 Issue 51: FORCE MAJEURE is online now! With new writing by @will-davies.bsky.social
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@rodriquese.bsky.social
@jacknorton.bsky.social
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
@lilyscherlis.bsky.social
. . . and many more. Read it all here: www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...
Issue 51
Content filed under the Issue 51 taxonomy.
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Elias Rodriques @rodriquese.bsky.social · Sep 9
I wrote about Nicholas Boggs' new James Balddwin biography for @thenation.com Read here: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
James Baldwin’s Radical Politics of Love
While Baldwin was persecuted in part because of whom he loved, it was love that impelled him to bring about a more utopian future in which such persecution was not possible.
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Elias Rodriques @rodriquese.bsky.social · Apr 14
I interviewed Imani Perry for @thenation.com about the color blue, the blues, and Black life www.thenation.com/article/cult...
“Blues People” and Black Life: A Conversation With Imani Perry
We spoke with the scholar about Black in Blues, a poetic exploration of the relationship between the color blue and Black people.
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Elias Rodriques @rodriquese.bsky.social · Dec 11
I wrote about Harold Sonny Ladoo, Richard Fung's film on Ladoo, and more for SX Salon. Read here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
A More Unknowable Past
In The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo, Richard Fung’s documentary on the titular Trinidadian novelist, two interviewees cry. One is Peter Such, the Canadian novelist who mentored Ladoo and helped him ga...
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Ana Velasco @anavelasco.bsky.social · Dec 6
"So the question for a writer like me is always, “What am I writing into? What am I writing over?” Every aspect of writing and of narrative fiction is concerned with it."

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How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worst
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.
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Sasha Ann Panaram @sashapanaram.bsky.social · Dec 5
"So the question for a writer like me is always, 'What am I writing into? What am I writing over?' Every aspect of writing and of narrative fiction is concerned with it." -- Dionne Brand via @thenation.com
How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worst
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.
www.thenation.com
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Elias Rodriques @rodriquese.bsky.social · Dec 5
I interviewed Dionne Brand for @thenation.com. Read for a discussion of the English novel, an alternative tradition, and more www.thenation.com/article/cult...
How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worst
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.
www.thenation.com
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