Erica X Eisen's work has appeared in n+1, The Baffler, Current Affairs, The Nation, The Washington Post, AGNI, The Threepenny Review, The Guardian, the BBC, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Erica X Eisen
Articles by Erica X Eisen:
“I Will Take the Not-Easy Task”: An Interview with Almagul Menlibayeva
in Issue 100 | Holes (Jul 2022)My great-grandmother, she was a person who witnessed and was practicing nomadism. And my grandmother, she was a person who was already settled and was saying, “OK, I’m going to live in the village, you know, in the kolkhoz.” She became a village person. She lost her nomadism. The language remains, but it’s a different language. It’s a settled language, the language of people who worked for the kolkhoz or sovkhoz.
Death of a Citizen
in Issue 99 | Where You Stay (Jan 2022)It’s fair to say that the rise of citizenship stripping as a legal tool looks a lot like the reinstitution of banishment, a fairly common punishment throughout Europe into the 19th century. In different polities and at different times, banishment was the sentence meted out to punish such varying offenses as murder and incest, vagabondage and treason.
This Constant Becoming: An Interview With Mithu Sen
in Issue 98 | Teeth (Jul 2021)I’ve edited my Wikipedia page so many times: I change my biographical data, I change my date of birth, I put wrong information. It says I participated in documenta. A particular size and style of my drawings is always signed within a 20-year timeline from ’97 to 2017, so even if I make it today I’ll sign it 2006, or 2012, or 2015.
What It Means to Be Alive: An Interview with Ravi Amar Zupa
in Issue 96 | Prophecies (Jan 2021)I’ll get stuck for long periods trying to think about the right thing to put with something. Maybe Kurt Vonnegut is talking about the same phenomena and part of human life that this Hindu god represents. Not in a very direct way, but more or less they’re talking about the same part of us, of what it means to be alive.
Sun of All Suns
in Issue 96 | Prophecies (Jan 2021)For a brief period in the early 20th century, a small group of Japanese Muslims was earnestly proposing that the future of their country was Islamic—and people in serious positions of power were listening.
From the Editors: Bitter Water
in Issue 96 | Prophecies (Jan 2021)John mentions many stars in Revelation, but the only one he gives the name of is called Wormwood.
Introduction
in Issue 95 | Symptoms (Jul 2020)The editors explain themselves.