Back into the Fold: An Interview with Chloé Valdary
Otis Houston speaks to activist Chloé Valdary about expanding the Western canon, rehabilitating extremists, and rejuvenating the American spirit.
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Making Money from Division
Joseph Hogan reviews Matt Taibbi’s latest, “Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another.”
Amtrak Kerouac
A recovering addict pays tribute to a literary hero at his tomb in Lowell, Massachusetts.
James Bond's Martini: A Theory
Robert Slayton surveys the history of James Bond's iconic drink order.
Conrad and Coal
The exploitative mining of coal was central to Conrad’s critique of colonial capitalism.
Marguerite Duras and the Violence of Writing
Katie Da Cunha Lewin reviews a new translation of Marguerite Duras’s major essays and nonfiction.
A Death on the Frontier
A tale of addiction, a treasure hunt, and generations of American Dreams.
Baby Sharks
Greg Gerke talks about the emblematic images of our time.
(Please Don’t Let Me Be) Misunderstood
The urge to be seen forms the urgency of Cameron Awkward-Rich’s “Dispatch.”
After the Fall: Revisiting 1989 in a New Age of Walls
Matthew Longo considers the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall and the sociopolitical implications of it — both now and then.
Writing Across Borders
Krupa Shandilya charts “The Limits of the World,” the debut novel from Jennifer Acker.
On (Not) Reading the Mueller Report
Katherine Voyles dissects the odd phenomenon of the Mueller Report: how Americans seem to purchase it at extreme levels, but do not seem to read it.
On Walter Benjamin’s Legacy: A Correspondence Between Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno
Susan H. Gillespie and Samantha Rose Hill translate the correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno.
Walter Benjamin’s Last Work
Samantha Rose Hill considers the continent-spanning turmoil that has marked the publication of Walter Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History."
The Impeachment: Democracy in Decline Disguised as Democracy in Action
Miriam Greenspan argues that the impeachment proceedings will not eliminate fascism in America.
Into the Amber: An Interview with Mimi Lok on “Last of Her Name”
Marina Manoukian talks to Mimi Lok about her new short story collection, "Last of Her Name."
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