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Fara Dabhoiwala’s “What is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea”
Kate Wolf speaks with historian Fara Dabhoiwala about his new book, “What is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea”
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All That Beauty and Misery
Jenna Mahale interviews Philippa Snow about her new books “It’s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me: On Femininity and Fame” and “Snow Business.”
A Life Infested with Doubt
Cory Oldweiler reviews Croatian author Martina Vidaić’s novel “Bedbugs,” newly translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać.
Chortling Smugly and Rolling Their Eyes
Christian Kriticos considers Louis Sachar’s “The Magician of Tiger Castle,” the children’s author’s “first novel for adults.”
Maybe We Can Talk About It
Iris Kim interviews Katie Simon about “Tell Me What You Like: An Honest Discussion of Sex and Intimacy After Sexual Assault.”
Writing to Liberate Yourself
Matthew K. Ritchie interviews Lawrence Burney about his new book, “No Sense in Wishing.”
City of Sycophants
Tess Pollok interviews Zoe Dubno about her debut novel, “Happiness and Love.”
A Higher Thing than History
Zach Gibson reviews Hayden White’s second volume of “The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory.”
Ungatherable Being
Martha Ronk thinks about Kristen Case’s “Daphne.”
Tongues Tied, Mirrors Shattered
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho explores Ho Sok Fong’s “Lake Like a Mirror,” translated by Natascha Bruce, and Lau Yee-Wa’s “Tongueless,” translated by Jennifer Feeley.
The Shapes We Travel
Miyo McGinn conducts a circuitous Q and A with “The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere” author Nicholas Triolo.
A Communion with Music
Tadhg Hoey considers Ben Ratliff’s “Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening.”
In the Late Ming, Literature Is Survival
Mahika Dhar reviews two classics of Chinese literature: Kong Shangren’s “The Peach Blossom Fan” and Zhang Yingyu’s “More Swindles from the Late Ming.”
Mosab Abu Toha’s “Forest of Noise”
Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by Mosab Abu Toha, a Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and essayist, to talk about his new book, “Forest of Noise.”
A History That Needs to Be Retold
Vivien Chang reviews Howard W. French’s “The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.”
White Noise, White Heat, White Books
Dashiel Carrera considers Han Kang, sleep, and the Velvet Underground.
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