The Wealth of Asteroids: Berfrois Interviews Martin Elvis
The penalty in rocket fuel for mining on Mars is pretty big. Asteroids are better...
Read MoreAsian American Buddhism: Nancy Chu Interviews Chenxing Han
May We Gather: A National Buddhist Memorial Ceremony for Asian American Ancestors ended with the Buddhist leaders processing in pairs out of the temple while holding one of two long white threads emanating from the Buddha statue on the altar...
Read MoreThe Sea’s Breathin: Medha Singh Interviews Gregory Leadbetter
I first met Gregory Leadbetter in Trivandrum, in its notorious, sweltering heat. Curiously enough, I'd been placed in a couple of panels on love and feminism...
Read MoreJessica Sequeira Interviews H.S. Shivaprakash
H.S. Shivaprakash (Hulkuntemath Shivamurthy Sastri Shivaprakash) is a poet, playwright and translator who writes in the Kannada language.
Read MorePatriarchy’s Paradoxical Persistence: Berfrois Interviews Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider
Our work began with a question: Why do we sacrifice the pleasures of human connection in order to claim our place as “one of the boys” or as a “good” woman?
Read MoreTranslation: Berfrois Interviews Charlotte Mandell
Based in the Hudson Valley, Charlotte Mandell has rapidly become one of the world’s most acclaimed translators from French into English...
Read MoreA National Education Service: Berfrois Interviews Melissa Benn
Our education system divided our nation, broadly along the lines of social class, choosing winners and losers at an early age...
Read MoreCarmen Troncoso Interviews Ida Vitale
Ida Vitale is a poet, translator, essayist, professor and literary critic in Uruguay. She is a member of the artistic movement called the “Generation of ’45” along with Mario Benedetti...
Read MoreControlled Experience: Berfrois Interviews Dimitris Lyacos
Dimitris Lyacos is the author of the Poena Damni trilogy, which has developed as a work in progress over the course of thirty years...
Read MoreCzesław Miłosz’s Century: Berfrois Interviews Andrzej Franaszek
As you can imagine, there was no need to edit much in his articles. But I would ask him if he was sure about something. Miłosz was very willing to write and work...
Read MoreDigital Capital: Berfrois Interviews Kenneth Goldsmith
Painting reacted in a smart way to its crisis of representation and became something else. Writing didn’t...
Read MoreMatthew O’Shannessy talks to Amy Spiers and Catherine Ryan
Drawing on the work of English philosopher Nina Power and research into the techniques of crowd control, Australian artists Amy Spiers and Catherine Ryan have created a satirical work amplifying the “camp” aesthetics found within the organized policing of public spaces.
Read MoreCJ Chanco talks to Marc H. Ellis
Marc Ellis has written over two dozen texts on the themes of justice, reconciliation, peace and conflict in Latin America and the Middle East. He is best known for his work on the links between the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
Read MoreState School Myths: Berfrois Interviews Melissa Benn (Again)
As for our own free schools, there is mounting evidence that not only do many of these face as many, if not more, problems than the schools they were designed to replace
Read MoreThese Coffees Are Making Me Thirsty by Russell Bennetts
Before her coffee, my mom was all body and no voice. She’d walk to the kitchen in silence, looking extra thin.
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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