Elias Rodriques
@rodriquese.bsky.social
Repped by Jin Auh at Wylie. Novel, All the Water I've Seen is Running. Words in The Guardian, The Nation, and elsewhere.
belated but I wrote about Glissant's theory of relation and Gayl Jones's Corregidora in Social Text. DM me for a PDF; link here: read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...
“Nothing You Don't Want”: Consent in Glissant's Theory of Opacity and Gayl Jones's Corregidora
Abstract. In recent years, scholars have offered two different accounts of opacity's uses as counter to transparency's violence in Édouard Glissant's oeuvre. One group describes opacity as offering te...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
belated but I wrote about Glissant's theory of relation and Gayl Jones's Corregidora in Social Text. DM me for a PDF; link here: read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...
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“Trump was—and is—intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent.” In n+1’s new issue: @rodriquese.bsky.social on the art that’s been censored by the Trump administration. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
Lifetime Achievement | Elias Rodriques
Trump was — and is — intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent. I asked Andil to meet that weekend, and h...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“Trump was—and is—intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent.” In n+1’s new issue: @rodriquese.bsky.social on the art that’s been censored by the Trump administration. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
Now out from behind paywall: I wrote about art under authoritarianism and the cancellation of the art exhibit of Andil Gosine for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/essays/lifetime-achievement/
Lifetime Achievement | Elias Rodriques
Trump was — and is — intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent. I asked Andil to meet that weekend, and h...
www.nplusonemag.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Now out from behind paywall: I wrote about art under authoritarianism and the cancellation of the art exhibit of Andil Gosine for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/essays/lifetime-achievement/
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“I had studied art and writing that was—and I mean this literally, fully aware of the irony, given the past decade’s hand-wringing over political correctness—canceled.” In n+1’s brand-new issue: @rodriquese.bsky.social on art and freedom under Trump.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
Lifetime Achievement | Elias Rodriques
Trump was — and is — intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent. I asked Andil to meet that weekend, and h...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“I had studied art and writing that was—and I mean this literally, fully aware of the irony, given the past decade’s hand-wringing over political correctness—canceled.” In n+1’s brand-new issue: @rodriquese.bsky.social on art and freedom under Trump.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
I wrote about the cancellation of Andil Gosine's exhibit and art censorship under Trump for @nplusonemag.com. Read here: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
Lifetime Achievement | Elias Rodriques
Trump was — and is — intent on creating a new future, and to gain a better sense of that vision, I needed to understand what future he was working to prevent. I asked Andil to meet that weekend, and h...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I wrote about the cancellation of Andil Gosine's exhibit and art censorship under Trump for @nplusonemag.com. Read here: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...
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n+1 Issue 51: FORCE MAJEURE is online now! With new writing by @will-davies.bsky.social
@liv-veazey.bsky.social
@rodriquese.bsky.social
@jacknorton.bsky.social
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
@lilyscherlis.bsky.social
. . . and many more. Read it all here: www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...
@liv-veazey.bsky.social
@rodriquese.bsky.social
@jacknorton.bsky.social
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
@lilyscherlis.bsky.social
. . . and many more. Read it all here: www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...
Issue 51
Content filed under the Issue 51 taxonomy.
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September 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
n+1 Issue 51: FORCE MAJEURE is online now! With new writing by @will-davies.bsky.social
@liv-veazey.bsky.social
@rodriquese.bsky.social
@jacknorton.bsky.social
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
@lilyscherlis.bsky.social
. . . and many more. Read it all here: www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...
@liv-veazey.bsky.social
@rodriquese.bsky.social
@jacknorton.bsky.social
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
@lilyscherlis.bsky.social
. . . and many more. Read it all here: www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...
I wrote about Nicholas Boggs' new James Balddwin biography for @thenation.com Read here: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
James Baldwin’s Radical Politics of Love
While Baldwin was persecuted in part because of whom he loved, it was love that impelled him to bring about a more utopian future in which such persecution was not possible.
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September 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I wrote about Nicholas Boggs' new James Balddwin biography for @thenation.com Read here: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
I interviewed Imani Perry for @thenation.com about the color blue, the blues, and Black life www.thenation.com/article/cult...
“Blues People” and Black Life: A Conversation With Imani Perry
We spoke with the scholar about Black in Blues, a poetic exploration of the relationship between the color blue and Black people.
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April 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I interviewed Imani Perry for @thenation.com about the color blue, the blues, and Black life www.thenation.com/article/cult...
I wrote about Harold Sonny Ladoo, Richard Fung's film on Ladoo, and more for SX Salon. Read here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
A More Unknowable Past
In The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo, Richard Fung’s documentary on the titular Trinidadian novelist, two interviewees cry. One is Peter Such, the Canadian novelist who mentored Ladoo and helped him ga...
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December 11, 2024 at 7:22 PM
I wrote about Harold Sonny Ladoo, Richard Fung's film on Ladoo, and more for SX Salon. Read here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
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"So the question for a writer like me is always, “What am I writing into? What am I writing over?” Every aspect of writing and of narrative fiction is concerned with it."
@thenation.com
@thenation.com
How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worst
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.
www.thenation.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:15 PM
"So the question for a writer like me is always, “What am I writing into? What am I writing over?” Every aspect of writing and of narrative fiction is concerned with it."
@thenation.com
@thenation.com
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"So the question for a writer like me is always, 'What am I writing into? What am I writing over?' Every aspect of writing and of narrative fiction is concerned with it." -- Dionne Brand via @thenation.com
How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worst
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.
www.thenation.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:44 PM
"So the question for a writer like me is always, 'What am I writing into? What am I writing over?' Every aspect of writing and of narrative fiction is concerned with it." -- Dionne Brand via @thenation.com
I interviewed Dionne Brand for @thenation.com. Read for a discussion of the English novel, an alternative tradition, and more www.thenation.com/article/cult...
How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worst
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.
www.thenation.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:28 PM
I interviewed Dionne Brand for @thenation.com. Read for a discussion of the English novel, an alternative tradition, and more www.thenation.com/article/cult...