Band People, an Annotated Playlist
September 10, 2024
This annotated playlist, created by author and musician Franz Nicolay, dissects some songs that make appearances in his new book Band People, which looks at the lives of musicians who… READ MORE
Author: Anahi Molina
Q&A with Mónica M. Salas Landa on Visible Ruins
May 7, 2024
The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability. Far from accomplishing their stated goals, however, these initiatives concealed violence, and permitted… READ MORE
Q&A with Oil Cities author Henry Wiencek
April 15, 2024
In 1904, prospectors discovered oil in the rural parishes of North Louisiana just outside Shreveport. As rural cotton fields gave way to dense, industrial centers of energy extraction, migrants from… READ MORE
Q&A with Playing the Percentages author Derek Long
March 29, 2024
Though much has been written about early Hollywood and the studio system, few studies have focused on the distribution practices that directly preceded that system. Told not as a “golden… READ MORE
Q&A with Mesquite Pods to Mezcal editors on Oaxacan Culture, Foodways, and Futures
February 26, 2024
Among the richest culinary traditions in Mexico are those of the “eight regions” of the state of Oaxaca. Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines brings together some… READ MORE
Q&A with Marcia Stephenson on international research, llamas, and other camelids
January 1, 2024
Camelids—a category which includes llamas, alpacas, and vicuñas—are vital to the cultures and economies of the Andes. The animals have also been at the heart of ecological and social catastrophe:… READ MORE
Q&A with Noah Tsika on filmmaking, biopics, and Todd Haynes
December 18, 2023
As the first and only Bob Dylan “biopic,” I’m Not There (dir. Todd Haynes) caused a stir. The film, which offers a surreal retelling of Dylan’s life and career, is… READ MORE
Q&A with Breaking the Gender Code author Georgina Hickey on Public Spaces, Women, and Advocacy
November 22, 2023
From the closing years of the nineteenth century, women received subtle—and not so subtle—messages that they shouldn’t be in public. Or, if they were, that they were not safe. Georgina… READ MORE
Q&A with Jason Ruiz on Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America’s War on Drugs
October 20, 2023
If there is an enemy in the War on Drugs, it is Latinx people. That is the lesson of forty years of cultural production in the United States, and the… READ MORE
Q&A with Myriam J. A. Chancy on the personal & political impacts of the 2010 Haiti earthquake
October 12, 2023
In the years following 2010, when a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, Myriam J. A. Chancy wrote columns, poems, essays, and took photos. In her new book, Chancy examines the structures… READ MORE
