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Communing with the Dead: On Yiyun Li’s “Where Reasons End”

Ultimately, "Where Reasons End" is a tremendous act of empathy....

Render Unto “Hail, Caesar!”

Jeet Heer - February 21, 2019

Far from being a “trifle,” "Hail, Caesar!" is thematically profound, a heartfelt and rueful tribute to the craft of filmmaking....

AROUND THE WORLD, FICTION

The Never-Ending Search for Transcendence: A Conversation with Peter Stamm

GD Dess - February 21, 2019

GD Dess speaks with Peter Stamm about his “optimistic belief in the possibility of transcendence.”...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, SF

Speculating on the Blockchain Beyond Cryptocurrencies

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Unwanted at Midlife: Not Old, but “Too Old”

Margaret Morganroth Gullette - February 20, 2019

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Nathan Scott McNamara - February 20, 2019

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Kompromat: Or, Revelations from the Unpublished Portions of Andrea Manafort’s Hacked Texts

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"Lost Children Archive" brings into focus the wrongs that are being inflicted upon immigrant children. It demands that our numbed complacency be shaken....

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Alex Olson was born in 1978 in Boston, and she lives and works in Los Angeles. In 2008 she received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and in 2001 her BA from Harvard University. Olson has had one person exhibitions at Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago; Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco; Laura Bartlett Gallery, London; and Lisa Cooley, New York. She has shown in group exhibitions at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and her works are included in their respective public collections. Alex Olson is currently featured in our Epistolary issue of the Quarterly Journal.

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