Gish Jen has always had something of a "Frank Capra-esque" view of America. Like Capra, who directed immortal Hollywood films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life, Jen's big ...
2023 marked the 100th anniversary of the country's oldest secular pacifist organization, the War Resisters League. Also, a new film opened in November about Bayard Rustin, who organized the 1963 Great ...
President Warren G. Harding once urged the American people to "strive for production as Babe Ruth strives for home runs." In Gish Jen's inventive but muddled dystopian novel The Resisters, production ...
Historians who hail the heroes of World War II typically focus on soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy or Allied troops liberating concentration camps. Rarely remembered are the networks of quiet ...
“Of course, you have a choice. You always have a choice,” insists Aunt Nettie, the AI machine who runs the world in “The Resisters.” Gish Jen’s latest novel follows a Surplus family — that is, a ...
The passing of Jimmy Carter has been duly noted in ubiquitous remembrances and commentaries on his four-year presidency, 1977-1981. Carter is lauded more for his post-presidential humanitarian ...
A minaret from which Turks fired upon Christians in 1909 in Adana stands amid the town's ruins. Bain News Service via Library of Congress The anniversary of the Armenian Genocide is marked every year ...
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