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Ross Gay’s “The Book of (More) Delights”
Ross Gay joins Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about his latest, book, “The Book of (More) Delights,” a second installment of “The Book of Delights.”...
Ross Gay’s “The Book of (More) Delights”
Ross Gay joins Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about his latest, book, “The Book of (More) Delights,” a second installment of “The Book of Delights.”...
The IIC School Versus the JLF School of Indian English
Sumana Roy on how the vernacularization of the English language has affected Indian political and cultural life....
An Excuse to Make Noise: On Todd Decker’s “Astaire by Numbers” and Matthew Frye Jacobson’s “Dancing Down the Barricades”
Brynn Shiovitz reviews two new books on screen dance, Todd Decker’s “Astaire by Numbers: Time & the Straight White Male Dancer” and Matthew Frye Jacobson’s “Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era.”...
The Year’s Best Is Dead, Long Live the Year’s Best: On the 2023 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalists
Niall Harrison reviews the 2023 finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award....
When the Dust Won’t Settle: Stories of Syrian War and Earthquake Survivors
Elle Kurancid writes about the aftermath of the earthquake in Syria, with documentary photographs by Walaa Alshaer....
Multihyphenated Identity in Young Adult Fiction: On Emily Bowen Cohen’s “Two Tribes”
Na’amit Sturm Nagel reviews Emily Bowen Cohen’s young adult graphic novel “Two Tribes.”...
Multihyphenated Identity in Young Adult Fiction: On Emily Bowen Cohen’s “Two Tribes”
Na’amit Sturm Nagel reviews Emily Bowen Cohen’s young adult graphic novel “Two Tribes.”...
A Fireball in the Marshall Islands: How a Nuclear Test Changed the World
Émile P. Torres describes how it was not the dropping of the atom bombs in 1945 but the testing of a nuclear bomb is the Marshall Islands in 1954 that marked the moment when people became preoccupied with human extinction....
What Drove Popeye to the Picket Line: The Story of “Fleischer’s Animated News”
“Fleischer’s Animated News,” an animation industry comic from the 1930s, satirized working conditions similar to those motivating the Hollywood strikes today, as Paul Morton discusses....
An Insider’s Look at China’s Outside Reality: On Daniel Bell’s “The Dean of Shandong”
Paul J. D’Ambrosio reviews Daniel Bell’s “The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University.”...
The Lines That Cannot Be Broken: On Krisztina Tóth’s “Barcode”
Daniel W. Pratt reviews a new translation of Hungarian author Krisztina Tóth’s story collection “Barcode.”...
The Points Between
FLOATING POINTS PERFORMS PROMISES at The Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, September 20, 2023. Promises, one of the most highly acclaimed jazz albums in recent years, is a meditative and minimalist journey. Released in 2021, it’s a collaboration between the British ...
What Came After Spinsters
Eight years ago, if you had asked Briallen Hopper what she did, or who she was, she wouldn’t have told you she was a writer. She might have mentioned the shrinking academic job market she had waded through to no ...