Foreword: Politics and the American language
I. Electoral catastrophes: The loneliness of Donald Trump ; Coda (July 16, 2018) ; Milestones in misogyny ; Twenty million missing storytellers
II. American emotions: Ideology of isolation ; Naïve cynicism ; Facing the furies ; Preaching to the choir
III. American edges: Climate change is violence ; Blood on the foundation ; Death by gentrification : the killing of Alex Nieto and the savaging of San Francisco ; No way in, no way out ; Bird in a cage : visiting Jarvis Masters on death row ; Coda: Case dismissed ; The monument wars ; Eight million ways to belong ; The light from Standing Rock
IV. Possibilities: Break the story ; Hope in grief ; In praise of indirect consequences.
