American Factory

By Andy Battle

JUL-AUG 2020 | Field Notes

American Factory, directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert in 2019, begins with scenes of hope. In 2008, General Motors shut its factory in Moraine, Ohio, just south of Dayton. Nearly 2,500 auto-workers lost their jobs. Counting workers in ancillary local industries, the jobless toll rose to 10,000. When Fuyao, a Chinese auto glass maker, announced in 2014 that it would take over the old GM plant and employ 800, the reaction was relief.

Inside the "Muslim Factory": NEDJIB SIDI MOUSSA with Felix Baum

By Felix Baum

FEB 2018 | Field Notes

The Muslims produced by this social factory are not necessarily believers, they don’t necessarily practice Islam, go to the mosque, eat halal etc.—they are rather a kind of sub-nationality, similar to the Muslims in ex-Yugoslavia or those in Lebanon at the time of the French protectorate.

April Selections

By Brad Cohan

APR 2018 | Music

Brad Cohan’s April Selections.

Degrees of Retreat

By Carina Kohn

MAY 2020 | Fiction

Every little thing in Rosa’s house has energy, down to the dish towel. She never stands close to the microwave. All her pots are cast iron. Her clothes are cotton, and her food, organic. Every piece of furniture she and her husband bought has been replaced with its natural, unpolished wood equivalent.