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Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

“That is the joy of otherness, an awareness that even seeing oneself face to face means that the very notion of otherness is present.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 10, 2025

Nuar Alsadir: The Craft of Writing Empathy

Nuar Alsadir: The Craft of Writing Empathy

On Otherness, Analysis, and What I Learned in Clown School

By Nuar Alsadir | November 6, 2018

They Don't Kill Us Because of How We Pray

They Don't Kill Us Because of How We Pray

On Pittsburgh, Otherness, and the Virulence of Antisemitism

By Emily Geminder | November 5, 2018

Elie Wiesel on the Problem with Tolerance

Elie Wiesel on the Problem with Tolerance

"What Can I Learn From the Other? What Does He See That I Cannot?"

By Ariel Burger | November 1, 2018

Like Most Americans, I Was Raised to Be A White Man

Like Most Americans, I Was Raised to Be A White Man

On Identity, Power, and Realizing What It Means to Be an "Other"

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri | July 24, 2018

On the First South Asian YA Novel: <em>Born Confused</em> 15 Years Later

On the First South Asian YA Novel: Born Confused 15 Years Later

Tanuja Desai Hidier in Conversation with Mitra Kalita

By S. Mitra Kalita | October 16, 2017

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