Highlights

In this conversation, she elaborates on her unconventional view of Orwell, and she offers an alternative reading of 1984. She talks about how Orwell was both a socialist and a critic of the left, and why she identifies with this, and argues for the political importance of pleasure and beauty. And she explains why, despite Orwell’s troubling silence about the plight of women, she believes we should still read his works. Interview by Eyal Press for Primary Sources.

In this episode of Open Form, Mychal talks to Mira Jacob (Good Talk) about the 1991 film Mississippi Masala, directed by Mira Nair and starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, and Roshan Seth. For Mychal Denzel Smith for Open Form.

In her opinion column in The Guardian, Type Fellow Rebecca Solnit writes that it is imperative for Americans to fight back to protect abortion rights, bodily self-determination and privacy.

In this conversation, which was recorded last fall, Ta-Nehisi talks about why Postwar had such a profound impact on him. He explores the preface he wrote to Ill Fares the Land, another of Judt’s books, which has just been reissued by Penguin. He also talks about the power of language to help us imagine a better world, whether he identifies as an Afro-pessimist, and what it’s like to grow up in a nationalist household. By Eyal Press for Primary Sources.

A conversation with the journalist son of the doctor who endured Buffalo’s abortion wars (and delivered my firstborn). Puffin Foundation Fellow Eyal Press interviewed for The Washington Press.

A conversation with writer Mychal Denzel Smith for Public Seminar..