Against the Grain – April 2, 2013
If the arts change with the times, why hasn’t literature kept up? In “How Literature Saved My Life,” David Shields picks apart most of modern literature and argues passionately for a new kind of narrative.
Against the Grain
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Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
Against the Grain – April 1, 2013
Are police, prisons, and criminalization the way to combat violence against women? In a recent talk at UC Berkeley, the black feminist scholar/activist Beth Richie said that’s exactly the wrong approach.
Against the Grain – March 27, 2013
In his new book “Towards Collective Liberation,” Chris Crass draws organizing and movement-building lessons from the experience of San Francisco Food Not Bombs.
Against the Grain – March 26, 2013
In “Song Without Words: Discovering My Deafness Halfway Through Life,” Gerald Shea writes about the lives of partially deaf people and about how society deals with them.
Against the Grain – March 25, 2013
Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates discusses her two newest novels: “The Accursed,” an historical work set in the Gilded Age at the dawn of the twentieth century, and “Daddy Love,” a thriller that looks at oppression, bigotry, and the notion of young people as a symbol of hope.
Against the Grain – March 20, 2013
Sarah Swider describes what’s happening to millions of Chinese peasants who migrate to urban centers to do precarious work in China’s construction industry. She also considers what the growing concentration of Chinese migrant workers in cities might mean for working-class politics and solidarity.
Against the Grain – March 18, 2013
Historian Jeff Rubin brought along his daughter Emma to study a social movement begun by teenage girls in Brazil. What they learned, and how it changed their own relationship, is laid out in their new book “Sustaining Activism.”
Against the Grain – March 13, 2013
What does it mean to say that we humans are alienated from nature? Does that statement even make sense? Not according to philosopher Steven Vogel, who contends that another kind of alienation is at play, one that we can and must address.
Against the Grain – March 12, 2013
Lawrence Wright’s book “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prism of Belief” tells the hidden history of America’s most controversial religion. His play “Fallaci” examines how political events can change a person’s beliefs.