Rachel Greenwald Smith

Biography

Rachel Greenwald Smith is the author of Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism (Cambridge, 2015). “State of Scarcity” is drawn from her forthcoming book, On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal (Graywolf, 2021). She is an associate professor of English at Saint Louis University. 

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ESSAYS / Summer 2021

State of Scarcity

By Rachel Greenwald Smith ,  Illustration by Ellen Weinstein

When the COVID-19 lockdown order comes in, my first thought is: I am ready.