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The Last Iraqi Communist: Saadi Youssef (1934–2021)
Sinan Antoon considers the life and work of Saadi Youssef.
Sinan AntoonAug 11, 2021
- Poetry
On Pedagogies and Fictions of Black Childhood: Kandice Chuh, William A. Cohen, and Nicole King in Conversation
William A. Cohen, Nicole King, and Kandice Chuh discuss the fiction of Black childhood.
Kandice Chuh, Nicole King, William A. CohenAug 11, 2021
- Literary Criticism
Miguel’s War and the Shattered Mirrors of Queer Redemption
Paul Amar inspects Eliane Raheb’s cross-Mediterranean documentary film "Miguel’s War."
Paul AmarAug 11, 2021
A Wacky Road to Redemption: On Francine Prose’s “The Vixen”
This fictional evocation of the 1950s Red Scare is warm, angry, and laugh-aloud funny.
Joy HorowitzAug 10, 2021
- Fiction
Uncommon Ground: Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev
Robert Pogue Harrison speaks to Vlad Tenev, founder of the Robinhood platform.
Aug 10, 2021
Interminable Hurt: On Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s “American Estrangement”
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s new story collection mines the troubled psyches of alienated loners.
Elaine MargolinAug 10, 2021
- Fiction
“Still Hungry?”: On John Ashbery’s “Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works”
Rowland Bagnall considers John Ashbery’s “Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works.”
Rowland BagnallAug 10, 2021
- Poetry
Descartes’s Evil Genius
Andrea Gadberry considers both the poetic influences on Descartes and the Cartesian influences on poetry.
Ross WilsonAug 9, 2021
- Philosophy & Religion
Dissecting “Noise”
Vasant Dhar considers “Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment,” the new book by Daniel Kahneman, Cass R. Sunstein, and Olivier Sibony.
Vasant DharAug 9, 2021
- Science & Technology
How to Topple a Tyrant: A Conversation with Belarusian Democratic Leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Sasha RazorAug 9, 2021
Race and Antiracism in Science and the Humanities
Michell Chresfield and Josie Gill discuss the ways in which scientists and humanists can approach race and antiracism.
Josie Gill, Michell ChresfieldAug 9, 2021
- Literary Criticism
An Immigrant of the Mind: Pola Oloixarac on Mona
Nathan Scott McNamara talks with Pola Oloixarac on the beauty of switching languages and her latest novel "Mona."
Nathan Scott McNamaraAug 9, 2021
Indian Exceptionalism and Its Allies
Arvind Rajagopal looks at “India’s First Dictatorship,” the new book by Christophe Jaffrelot and Pratinav Anil.
Arvind RajagopalAug 8, 2021
- Around the World
“Brightness, Darkness, and Everything In-Between”: A Conversation with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
Halley Sutton interviews Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, editor of the upcoming anthology collection “Palm Springs Noir.”
Halley SuttonAug 8, 2021
- Noir
Tokyo’s Catastrophe Games
Tokyo’s current Olympics are a weird echo of its post-catastrophic 1964 Games. Except the catastrophe is ongoing.
Sam HoldenAug 8, 2021
- Around the World
The Philosopher’s Trail: On Samantha Rose Hill’s “Hannah Arendt”
Shaan Sachdev reviews “Hannah Arendt” by Samantha Rose Hill, a new book in Reaktion Books’s Critical Lives series.
Shaan SachdevAug 7, 2021
- Biography & Autobiography