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Thinking on Dark Matter: ‘A Mind Spread Out on the Ground’

Thinking on Dark Matter: ‘A Mind Spread Out on the Ground’

In Alicia Elliott's essay collection about colonialism, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, she compares racism to the elusive role of dark matter in the universe.

Two Recent Novels Offer Differing Insights into the Sri Lankan Refugee Experience

Two Recent Novels Offer Differing Insights into the Sri Lankan Refugee Experience

Powerful novels The Boat People and Brixton Beach, both tackling the Sri Lankan refugee experience but from profoundly different angles, are eminently enjoyable reads but they're more than that: they're important reads.