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The Collapse of America Ground Zero of the Language Wars Anti Sarah Milroy: Rebecca Belmore’s searing vision $6.50 Vol. 26, No. 6 July/August 2018 CHARLES FORAN & CHRIS HEDGES The collapse of America GRAHAM FRASER Ground zero of the language wars ANDY LAMEY Anti-appropriation’s capitalist logic PLUS SUMMER FICTION REVIEWS EMILY M. KEELER on peak autofiction ALEX GOOD on short stories and the New Weird ANNE KINGSTON on Patrick deWitt and luxe lit CARLEIGH BAKER on Richard Wagamese’s literary legacy SaRAH WEINMAN on Iain Reid’s uncanny valley Publications Mail Agreement #40032362. Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to LRC, Circulation Dept. 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American journalist and author Chris Foran: A dimension of the book Hedges was already lamenting the that is true to your work, but still may collapse of his country. As Americans surprise some readers, is that you are celebrated their first black president, very committed to reportage, very Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning committed to sitting down with lots reporter as well as a Presbyterian of different people in lots of different minister, published 2009’s Empire of circumstances. What does that do for Illusion: The End of Literacy and the your thinking, those encounters with Triumph of Spectacle. His follow-up, direct personal experiences? Why Wages of Rebellion (2015), laid out do you value so much talking to the inevitability of revolt in the age people about what’s been going on in of the Occupy movement and Arab their lives? Spring. His books skirt traditional left Hedges: Because I’m a reporter. and right divisions, bringing a clear There is only one way to understand eye and righteous rage to his nation’s the zeitgeist of any society or cul- political and social ills. In the latest, ture, and that’s stepping out into it America: The Farewell Tour, as befits and listening. No matter how pre- the times, his arguments have taken scient or intelligent you may be, you on a fevered urgency. carry assumptions which are often, As a novelist, critic, and, for the when pitted against reality, wrong.
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