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The Russian-language reception of Crave’s ‘Heated Rivalry’ shows how tenderness, desire, and character complexity shape a phenomenon that transcends borders.
Nicole-Antonia Spagnola’s silent Super 8 film, 1-2-3: Apartment Gallery, loosely departs from the films of Billy Wilder.
Emerald Fennell’s sexed-up take on Emily Brontë’s gothic romance feels empty.
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Evan Brier’s recent book conducts a depressing literary autopsy, complete with case studies.
Two recent books on Idi Amin’s Uganda present an African mirror for Trump’s United States to see itself.
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The uprising in Iran isn’t only against armed oppression; it’s also over narrative.
Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year is selling us a white fantasy.
On Iran, the experience of home, and a conflict that is ‘doubly mine.’
Fighting about art and identity, again.
An exhibition charts the ties between East Asia and Latin America, from the colonial era to the new Cold War.
Andrew Martin’s new novel is a chronicle of the overeducated and underachieving stumbling through a post-pandemic haze.
Amid cinema’s decline, two new books by A. S. Hamrah resist defeatism.
Five writers and AI researchers discuss the future of literature.
Revisiting Pat Cadigan’s 1991 novel “Synners” in light of dystopian developments in Los Angeles.
Neurologist Pria Anand lauds Khameer Kidia’s new dissection of Western psychiatric imperialism.
Samuel Cohen’s anthology on book banning diagnoses a recent swell in censorship that’s problematic for more reasons than you’d think.
Patricia Lockwood goes behind the scenes of her recent novel ‘Will There Ever Be Another You’ and its explorations of long COVID, memory, and identity.
John Divola’s photographs of the Southern California desert in the late 1990s get a second wind thanks to Nazraeli Press’s reissues.
Nadia Davids discusses the ‘thin places’ between life and death in her new novel ‘Cape Fever.’
German director Mascha Schilinski’s visually evocative 2025 film suggests the influence of Francesca Woodman’s photographic work.
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