Hawa Allan

Hawa Allan writes cultural criticism, fiction, and poetry. She is essays editor at the Offing and her work has appeared in The Baffler, Lapham's Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Transition, among other places.

The Usefulness of Anger in Justice Work

Hawa Allan on Transforming “Vulnerability into Power”

January 4, 2022 By Hawa Allan

Confronting the Unreal Under President Trump

Hawa Allan Turns to Serious Thinkers to Consider an Unserious Man

January 12, 2017 By Hawa Allan

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