“What I learnt when I was ‘taken away’ to an island quarantine facility in the middle of the night.”
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Tomorrow Isn’t Over: A Reading List About Brighter Futures
Hope may seem to be in short supply these days, but these stories dare to chart a course toward something better.
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Extreme Heat Is Here, and It’s Deadly
“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 inHighlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quote Posts, Quotes
Korean Director Bong Joon-ho on How to Laugh in the Face of Horror
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”
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
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
Lynne Segal points out that if the dystopia is already here, then the utopia must be here too.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Curiosity, Unfettered: Margaret Atwood as the Prophet of Dystopia
Rebecca Mead’s profile in The New Yorker covers the resonance of The Handmaid’s Tale in Donald Trump’s America.
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Handmaids Rising
Margaret Atwood on what ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,” written in 1984, means in the age of Trump.
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The Trump Story Project
Slate is running short stories by contemporary writers based in an imagined “Trump’s America.”