Ryan Ruby

Ryan Ruby is a writer and translator from Los Angeles, California. His fiction and criticism have appeared in Conjunctions, The Baffler, Dissent, n+1, The Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere. His debut novel The Zero and the One was published in March 2017 by Twelve Books.

“Make it New… Again.” Why We Need Alexander Pope’s Wild, Weird Poetry Today

Ryan Ruby on the Need to Shake Up Our Modern Era of Clean Professionalization

November 22, 2024 By Ryan Ruby

The Invisible Militarization of
Daily Life in America

Ryan Ruby Attempts to Enter a Weapons Factory Across the Street

April 16, 2020 By Ryan Ruby

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