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To satisfy imperial politics, the legislators of Natal were forced into creativity. They could not, for example, limit Indian immigration; British subjects possessed the right to travel freely, and this right could not be taken away—at least, not on overtly racial grounds. So Natal imposed a "literacy" test. The immigration officer could
... See moreMinal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
Paul Steger
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Grace Macaulay – in whose veins ran Essex rivers and Bible ink; in whose philosophy the devils of hell and the saints of Bethesda did battle with her reason and her nature – sat with her phone on the bare floor of a Hackney room and thought of Thomas Hart. Come home, he’d written, you wretched child, and I am wretched, she thought, and I think I’d
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
Before I went to graduate school for poetry, I went to graduate school for translation. For a while, I even thought of myself as a translator first, writer second. This did not last—I am not a very good translator—but the experience did form me as a reader and writer. Translators have to be accountable for every idiom, every reference, every syntac
... See moreAT HOLYOKE, MIMI is a LUG: lesbian until graduation.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
when people suggested the haenyeo start using oxygen tanks, she, along with other divers around the island, refused. “Everything we do must be natural,” she’d told the collective, “otherwise we’ll harvest too much, deplete our wet fields, and earn nothing.” There, again, balance.
Lisa See • The Island of Sea Women (201 POCHE)
“The Journalist and the Murderer,” by Janet Malcolm
newyorker.com
Thompson, tireless and unrelenting, brought her case to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. There her lawyers argued eloquently that it was “astonishing” that a judge would issue an order that would “have the effect of limiting Sharon Kowalski’s contact with Thompson and the love Karen feels for her.” The lawyers demanded to know, “In what moral framew
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