My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction
Bookended by her two award-winning novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile world. Taken together, the essays speak in a voice of unique spirit, marked by compassion, clarity, and courage. Radical and superbly readable, they speak always in defense of the collective, of the individual and of the lan
MODERATOR
Dr. Carmen Rojas is the president and CEO of Marguerite Casey Foundation. Under her leadership, which started in 2020, MCF has granted more than $273 million in funding to dozens of organizations doing the hard work of shifting power to those people who have long been excluded from having it, and launched the prestigious Freedom Scholar award. Prior to MCF, Dr. Rojas was the cofounder and CEO of the Workers Lab, an innovation lab that partners with workers to develop new ideas that help them succeed and flourish.
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Arundhati Roy lives in New Delhi. She is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. A collection of her essays from the past twenty years, My Seditious Heart, was published by Haymarket Books. Haymarket also recently published her book Azadi: Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus, which was awarded the European Essay Prize. Her latest book, published by Scribner in September, is Mother Mary Comes to Me.
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