Authors / Claire Schwartz
Claire Schwartz is the author of the poetry collection Civil Service (Graywolf Press, 2022) and the culture editor of Jewish Currents.
Review
Terms of Entry
Solmaz Sharif’s Customs probes the boundaries of the social to imagine a we on revolution’s other side.
Claire Schwartz
September 12, 2022
Newsletter
Growing Up in the Struggle
In a new podcast, Zayd Ayers Dohrn unpacks his family’s radical history.
Claire Schwartz
September 8, 2022
Conversation
The Widening Net of Punishment
Dorothy Roberts and Charlotte Shane on the criminalization of abortion and the expansion of the police state.
Claire Schwartz
July 28, 2022
Conversation
Assuming the Perspective of the Ancestor
Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on building constructive, future-oriented politics, at scale.
Claire Schwartz
May 3, 2022
Conversation
Waiting on the French Left to Decolonize Itself
Houria Bouteldja and Françoise Vergès on the French Presidential Elections.
Claire Schwartz
April 8, 2022
Essay
Reading Otherwise
On kinship, racial pedagogy, and reading as revision
Claire Schwartz
March 21, 2022
Conversation
For the Sake of Truth
Poet and activist Mohammed El-Kurd discusses his debut collection, the vexed meanings of visibility, and the long history of Palestinian freedom struggles.
Claire Schwartz
October 21, 2021
Review
Portraits of Empire
George W. Bush’s recent book of paintings betrays liberal empire’s role not as fascism’s alternative but as its co-conspirator.
Claire Schwartz
September 10, 2021
Conversation
The Collective Work of Abolition
Organizer and educator Mariame Kaba discusses transformative justice, refusing a politics of revenge, and her new book, We Do This ‘Til We Free Us.
Claire Schwartz
February 25, 2021
Dispatch
Taking Care
In the Twin Cities over the past week, protesters refused the state’s mythic monopoly on care, and thus its thin alibi for its violence.
Nathan Goldman and Claire Schwartz
June 5, 2020
Provisions
Provisions #2: “The world begins at a kitchen table.”
Meditations in a crisis on poems by Donika Kelly, Joy Harjo, and Nâzim Hikmet.
Cameron Awkward-Rich, Ariana Katz, and Claire Schwartz
April 17, 2020
