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They Learned to Stop Interrupting
Melissa Saywell explores Long Beach’s queer history at a Circa Festival event.
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Deborah Levy’s “The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies”
Kate Wolf speaks to the author Deborah Levy about her new book, a collection of essays called “The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies.”
Is Trump “America’s Hitler”?
Donald Trump is sometimes compared to Adolf Hitler in his narcissism and authoritarianism. Tom Zoellner looks at German history for parallels and contradictions.
Sunday Scaries
On the Lord’s Day, Madeleine Connors hits up Jumbo’s Clown Room and finds that there is no God, only Topaz the dancer.
A Chaos of Privilege and Prejudice
Charlie Tyson identifies a political turn in Alan Hollinghurst’s latest novel, “Our Evenings.”
Desire Lines
C. Francis Fisher interviews Madeleine Cravens about her debut book of poems, “Pleasure Principle.”
Behind All the Plaster
Rhian Sasseen reviews Lauren Elkin’s “Scaffolding.”
The Definitive History of Neo-Nazi Edgelords
Jordan Carroll reviews Spencer Sunshine’s “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s ‘Siege.’”
Jonathan Carroll’s Impossible Realism
Gary K. Wolfe surveys the career of American fabulist Jonathan Carroll, whose backlist is currently being re-released by JABberwocky eBooks.
America Is Faustian
Gregory Laski interviews Ed Simon about “Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain.”
You Can Scream All You Want
Madeleine Connors joins the little weirdos watching their best American girl Mitski at the Hollywood Bowl.
Russia’s Media-Ideological Complex
Michael David-Fox reviews Mikhail Suslov’s “Putinism—Post-Soviet Russian Regime Ideology.”
A Moment of Doubt, or Nearly So
Zachary Gillan reviews Brian Evenson’s new collection “Good Night, Sleep Tight.”
A Trapdoor of Her Own
Emmeline Clein considers girls, games, and heterosexual monogamy in her review of Sally Rooney’s new novel, “Intermezzo.”
Seeing Like a Simulation
Reviewing Chaim Gingold’s “Building SimCity,” Celine Nguyen finds similarities between tech billionaires’ attempts to build a utopian city in Solano, California, and being a godlike player in “SimCity.”
Kipling in Langley
Was the CIA more a product of the 19th-century Great Game than the 20th-century Cold War? Greg Barnhisel reviews “The CIA: An Imperial History” by Hugh Wilford.
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