Discourses of compliance and metrics foreclose collective possibilities in reimagining approaches to justice and equity that are organized in care and love

What does it mean to be a guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair? John McGlynn talks about the Lontar Foundation’s role in bringing Indonesian literature to the world and his own path from puppet maker to translator.

How the feel-good politics of multiculturalism have blinded the literary world to the roots of racial inequality

A new documentary about the famed Chinese artist and dissident focuses on his activism more than it does his art.