I read Myriad Intimacies with joy and wonder. It is a beautiful book that frames itself as an offering, rather than an intervention—a spiritual journey between secular and sacred. It pushes against…
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Experimental books
Sacred experiments, intimate politics
June 19, 2024
On walks between writing, when I pass the California poppies, I let them press into my mind, remembering a poem from Lata Mani’s Myriad Intimacies: “nectarous orange / pulsing for hours.” The…
June 19, 2024
Experimental books
Brilliance and complexity: Publishing Lata Mani’s Myriad Intimacies
June 19, 2024
Lata Mani has been an intellectual hero of mine since before I became an editor at Duke University Press. I had attended the pathbreaking “Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture” conference at…
June 19, 2024
Experimental books
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Mona Oraby
Experimental books—An introduction

In 2019, Liane Carlson wrote about a dying field (hers, the philosophy of religion). Its death arrived more rapidly than most others. She observed that the collective nature of all scholarship (“There is no intellectual work that does not take place as part of a dialogue with the living or dead”) sits awkwardly alongside the […]
June 19, 2024
Essays
Revisited: Underestimating the force of the New Evangelicals in the public sphere
May 6, 2024
Undoubtedly, transnational pulls and uneven relations of power shape political realities throughout the Americas. However, not all political and cultural phenomena in the region reflect realities in the United States.
May 6, 2024
The future of marriage
Revisited: Polyandry now!
April 22, 2024
The queerness of lost boys in butt huts struck me in the journalistic accounts I had read, and I took the forum on the future of marriage as an opportunity to examine…
April 22, 2024
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