Watch writer, thinker, and activist Arundhati Roy on the pandemic as a portal, and the need for real and longlasting change in the face of systemic racism and iniquity, so much of which has been starkly revealed by the global pandemic: “The very fact that we have to make these demands tells us what a subhuman society we’ve become. […] (We cannot return to) this horrifying injustice we call business as usual.”

Jonny Diamond

Jonny Diamond

Jonny Diamond is the Editor in Chief of Literary Hub. He lives in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains with his wife and two sons, and is currently writing a cultural history of the axe for W.W. Norton. @JonnyDiamondJonnyDiamond.me