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Author: Arvind Dilawar

Arvind Dilawar is an independent journalist. His articles, interviews, and essays on everything from the spacesuits of the future to love in the time of visas have appeared in Newsweek, The Guardian, Vice, and elsewhere
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07/26/2021

The Radicalism of W.E.B. Du Bois

Over the course of his life, the polemicist of the NAACP evolved leftward

by Arvind Dilawar

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06/14/2021

David Foster Wallace’s Problematic Tenses

Foster Wallace claimed James Baldwin’s support for ‘Standard White English’ — yet the latter dismissed it long before

by Arvind Dilawar

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04/22/2021

The Campus Novel Trap

“Novelists often teach out of economic necessity,” but campus life can consequently circumscribe their work.

by Arvind Dilawar

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03/15/2021

How the Ebola Epidemic in Africa Prefigured COVID-19

Novelist Veronique Tadjo’s In the Company of Men focuses on Ebola in 2014, but nevertheless speaks to us of COVID today

by Arvind Dilawar

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03/01/2021

The Repressive Roots of the Supreme Court

Rather than being expected to lead, the Court’s past demonstrates that it needs to be pushed — hard.

by Arvind Dilawar

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02/08/2021

Ampled’s Opportunity

A new co-op aims to take the music industry back for musicians

by Arvind Dilawar

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01/07/2021

The Time to Worry about Chinatown

The neighborhood survived racism, gentrification, and even a city-leveling earthquake, but might be done in by COVID-19

by Arvind Dilawar

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07/16/2020

The Women of the Gulag

Monika Zgustova shares stories from the USSR’s prison labor camps

by Arvind Dilawar

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05/11/2020

To Mars and Beyond

NASA’s Cory Simon on getting to the red planet with wearable technology

by Arvind Dilawar

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03/26/2020

Before It’s Too Late

Unpacking the Munich Agreement with P.E. Caquet

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