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Looking Beyond: A Conversation with Aminatta Forna

The author discusses her sharp, engaging new collection of essays, “The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion.”...

Apr 9

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SYLVIA BROWNRIGG

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Quarterly Journal: No. 32, 10th Anniversary Issue

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“A Brilliant, Holistic Approach”: On Deborah Warren’s “Strange to Say: Etymology as Serious Entertainment”

Tom Dalzell gets to the root of Deborah Warren’s “Strange to Say: Etymology as Serious Entertainment.”...

Apr 8

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TOM DALZELL

Cultural Dopes

The postmodernists had it right: all culture is the product of capitalism....

Apr 8

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GD DESS

Their Own Voices: Dyanne Asimow’s “Canaries”

What’s in a name?” According to Canaries, Dyanne Asimow’s shrewdly observed novel, just about everything — the culmination of self-identity, voice. Names tell our story. For Linda, an L.A. novelist facing writer’s block, Linda is “not the name ...

Apr 8

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SUSAN BASKIN

The Haynes Code

Jean-Thomas Tremblay reviews a recent anthology about Todd Haynes as feminist-queer filmmaker....

Apr 8

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JEAN-THOMAS TREMBLAY

Luncheon on the Grass at Jeffrey Deitch Los Angeles

Sunday Afternoon with Joaquin Murietta (1979) by Robert Colescott, Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, from the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Collection. © 2021 The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; The Garden (2020) by Salman Toor © Salman Toor; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. Photo by Farzad Owrang.

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NoViolet Bulawayo’s “Glory”

Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by NoViolet Bulawayo to talk about her latest novel, “Glory.”...

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An Ontology of Hate: On Shaul Magid’s “Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical”

Meir Kahane reveled in hateful tactics and propagated hate as an ontological principle....

DAVID N. MYERS

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Breeding at the End of the World: On Aaron Matz’s “The Novel and the Problem of New Life”

Lindsay Wilhelm thinks about what it means to procreate in a time of impending doom in a review of Aaron Matz’s “The Novel and the Problem of New Life.”...