The Best of Guernica Magazine
10+ most popular Guernica Magazine articles, as voted by our community.
17 years of global art & politics 📸 by Dafe Oboro
Guernica Magazine on Art
When Horror Is the Truth-teller
It is hard, in the era of the AR-15, to fear a vampire.
Guernica Magazine on Books
We Have Our Ghosts
We made what sense we could of it all. Fire, archiving, metamorphosis — all a part of love, in the end.
Guernica Magazine on Environment
Guernica Magazine on History
Extraction
When your great-grandparents grew up in Stalin’s terror-famine, your grandparents in the Holocaust, and your parents in a straddle between totalitarianism and democracy, you grew up confused about…
Guernica Magazine on Mindfulness
Carolyn Chen: “Buddhism has found a new institutional home in the West: the corporation.”
Silicon Valley is the latest player in a history of Western appropriation of Buddhism
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Sound Shadow
I heard high sounds better than low ones. If this condition was progressive, I would probably lose them all.
Gun Person
The walls in our classrooms are so thin. This training has not trained us. The lesson I take away is that I’m not ready.
If an American Cannot Speak Arabic
There is a particular kind of angst, a wanting and waiting, at the periphery of a language.
Inside the Afghan Resistance
The first photographs from the longest-lasting fight against the Taliban
Michael Mehaffy and Nikos A. Salingaros: The Architect Has No Clothes
October 19, 2011 Why does modern design tend to look so harsh and feel so unhospitable? By Michael Mehaffy and Nikos A. Salingaros By arrangement with OnTheCommons.org. Boston City Hall. Photograph
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