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🚨New Writing Latinos Episode!🚨 One of my faves. We talk with Jorell Meléndez-Badillo about his book, Puerto Rico: A National History, plus his collaboration with Bad Bunny!

Reflecting on his collaboration with Bad Bunny, Jorell Meléndez-Badillo recounts the star’s intention of amplifying and massifying Puerto Rican history, which aligned with his own sort of ethos as a scholar of Puerto Rican history. buff.ly/zA50Qcm

“Because of how Chekhov’s themes resonate with life during the pandemic, but his genre evokes a world after it, these novels use Chekhov to explore the pandemic’s hardships while also conjuring aspects of life that Covid forced us to leave behind.” buff.ly/EYWveKU

“At the core of the reorganization of power elites was a transformation of the relationship between economic forces and political forces, or, to speak more conceptually, between private economic power and the state as public authority.” From the archive: buff.ly/P2EALAm

“Unless we were on the frontlines of the pandemic, encountering drama in forms nobody would envy, Covid was, for most of us, a time of narrative stasis.” buff.ly/EYWveKU

“A lot of people tell me, oh, congratulations on writing this nationalist history of Puerto Rico. But it's not a national history. It’s historicizing the idea of the nation.” buff.ly/zA50Qcm

“The main objective of power elites after World War I was the revival of the world economy; but, as Wilson put it, a revival on the basis of a ‘solid structure of credit.’” From the archive: buff.ly/P2EALAm

None of us can be certain what outcomes the future will bring. But we might have reason for optimism, Robert M. Geraci writes, if we “reveal what lies hidden and lean in on clear communication and transparent technologies.” buff.ly/mrLJTKT

“We must push for a version of law that lives up to our ideals—and we must be ready to disobey when it doesn’t.” From the archive: buff.ly/pRN8l0s

In the latest Writing Latinos, Jorell Meléndez-Badillo describes writing a history from the margins, which meant decentralizing certain dates and moments. For example, his book decentralizes 1493 and begins instead with pre-Columbian societies. buff.ly/zA50Qcm

In Patchett's and Shteyngart’s Covid novels, Emma Adler writes, theater brings eventfulness and structure to what is precedingly the mush of characters’ lives. buff.ly/EYWveKU

“To reveal the ways tech companies hide the truth from us and prevent us from seeing new possibilities, we cannot use academic jargon to hide.” buff.ly/mrLJTKT

“Can you describe what the Nazis had as law? If you think the rule of law is a system of judgments and commands, they did.” From the archive: buff.ly/pRN8l0s

“Trump’s bluster on foreign affairs has proved to be a malevolent game of shiny keys. It’s menacing, to be sure, but also a sign of his incompetence.” From the archive: buff.ly/PKygnNE

“America First nationalism & the postwar liberal status quo are symptoms of larger dilemmas. They reveal how the nation has failed to come to grips with the true challenges of the present: inequality, climate change, global pandemic.” From the archive: buff.ly/PKygnNE

“Part of what the book is trying to do is to challenge this notion of Puerto Rican docility.” buff.ly/zA50Qcm

Gary Shteyngart’s novel, “Our Country Friend,” is a Covid novel. But it’s not about the isolation that Covid directly caused. Rather, it is a meditation on how Covid forced a reckoning with our capacity to feel alone even when with others. buff.ly/EYWveKU

It’s not too late to put our technology to good use, Robert M Geraci argues. But to optimize what’s happening in the world of digital technology, we’ve got to understand the unspoken rules of that world. buff.ly/mrLJTKT

“We are the beetles; history is the endless field of grass.” From the archive: buff.ly/UMjfBWB

“I was more interested in what my grandparents, my aunts, my family members were gonna think about the book. And so that was very liberating.” buff.ly/zA50Qcm