Salvos

14 Back from the Afterlife Misadventures in near-death experience Emily Harnett 2 6 Talk Like a Red A labor history in two acts Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein 38 You Are Witness to a Crime ACT UP’s legacy and the

epidemic dead Debra Levine

52 Solidarity Now

An experiment in oral history of the present Wen Stephenson

64 The Descendants

Unforgetting the victims of the Second Chimurenga Bongani Kona 110 Speak, Reenactment

On An-My Lê’s photography Hai-Dang Phan

120 Coup d’Etats and Cartoons Student politics, stop-motion owls,

and other WTF moments A.S. Hamrah

American Fiction

84 Normal People

On Gary Indiana’s crime trilogy Adrian Nathan West

92 Without a Reader Percival Everett’s parables

for modern living Matthew McKnight

Outbursts

B A F F L E R

6 California Elegy Our future happened in the golden state

Ben Ehrenreich

34 Hail to the Grief

The mourning-porn fallacies of President-elect Joe Biden Jess Bergman

130 Grief’s Anatomy

Hope awaits organizers like a trap

Hanif Abdurraqib