In the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I. ASK IN PUBLIC
5. On Accelerationism 11
6. Justice for Data Janitors 23
7. Anthropocene and Empire 41
8. Changing Climates of History 53
9. The Year of Black Memoir 69
10. Pop Justice 83
11. A Black Power Method 91
12. Soft Atheism 105
13. Where Do Morals Come From? 115
14. The Alchemy of Finance 127
15. How Gentrifiers Gentrify 141
16. Syria’s Wartime Famine at 100: “Martyrs of the Grass” 145
17. The Mortal Marx 153
18. Who Segregated America? 169
19. The Invention of the “White Working Class” 179
20. Going Deep: Baseball and Philosophy 193
21. The World Silicon Valley Made 203
22. PART II. THINK IN PUBLIC
23. Jill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things: An Interview 217
24. James Baldwin’s Istanbul 227
25. When Stuart Hall Was White 231
26. An Interview with Former Black Panther Lynn French 245
27. Black Intellectuals and White Audiences 251
28. Can There Be a Feminist World? 263
29. The Story’s Where I Go: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin 279
30. Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking 297
31. If You’re Woke You Dig It: William Melvin Kelley 303
32. Translating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Barbara Cassin 309
33. My Neighbor Octavia 319
34. Stop Defending the Humanities 325
35. Painting While Shackled to a Floor 335
36. PART III. READ IN PUBLIC
37. To Translate Is to Betray: On Elena Ferrante 343
38. What Global English Means for World Literature 357
39. The Stranger’s Voice 371
40. Can’t Stop Screaming 381
41. The Model- Minority Bubble 393
42. Free Is and Free Ain’t 397
43. The Mixed- Up Kids of Mrs. E. L. Konigsburg 409
44. In the Great Green Room: Margaret Wise Brown and Modernism 421
45. Afrofuturism: Everything and Nothing 427
46. Chick Lit Meets the Avant- Garde 439
47. Feeling Like the Internet 453
48. The People v. O. J. Simpson as Historical Fiction 463
49. Kafka: The Impossible Biography 469
50. Shirley Jackson’s Two Worlds 479
51. Reading to Children to Save Ourselves 487
52. List of Contributors 495