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  Fascist Pleasures and Failed Satire

  David Shipko faces down postmodern fascism in the video game “Helldivers 2.”

  David ShipkoDec 23

  • SF

  • Politics

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  The Womb and the Web

  Isabel Davis considers Amanda Hess’s new book about bringing a baby into a world of smart technology and data harvesting.

  Isabel DavisDec 23

  • Science & Technology

  • Gender & Sexuality

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  Will I Ever Stop Wanting?

  Tierney Finster traverses “Flat Earth,” Anika Jade Levy’s debut novel.

  Tierney FinsterDec 22

  • Fiction

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  Ta-Ta for Now

  Sophie van Well Groeneveld visits a Wolfgang Tillmans survey, the final exhibition at Centre Pompidou before its renovation.

  Sophie van Well GroeneveldDec 21

  • Art & Architecture

  • Politics

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  Has English Killed Global Literature?

  Chloe Garcia Roberts considers J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos’s new book on translation.

  Chloe Garcia RobertsDec 19

  • Literary Criticism

  • Nonfiction

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  There’s No Telling

  Annie Berke considers timelines not taken in new novels by Erin Somers and Catherine Newman.

  Annie BerkeDec 18

  • Fiction

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  Contact High: Anselm Kiefer at 80

  Ranbir Sidhu visits two recent exhibitions of Anselm Kiefer in Greece and the Netherlands.

  Ranbir SidhuDec 17

  • Art & Architecture

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  Isengard in Oxford

  Christian Kriticos explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s long-lost satire of a motorized world.

  Christian KriticosDec 17

  • SF

  • Fiction

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  Culture Never Recovered

  From his rear window, M. Keith Booker reads the new anthology of stories inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, edited by Maxim Jakubowski.

  M. Keith BookerDec 15

  • Film

  • Noir

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  Beginning to See the Light

  Rowland Bagnall dives into the early work of Stephen Shore, newly collected by MACK.

  Rowland BagnallDec 13

  • Art & Architecture

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  Accidental Offerings to Ancient Gods

  A palace of fine arts sinks into historical depths in Beatriz Cortez’s exhibition at Commonwealth and Council.

  Will FenstermakerDec 12

  • Art & Architecture

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  The Robinsonade in the Age of Reality TV

  Drew Basile reads the new English reissue of French author Michel Tournier’s novel “Friday.”

  Drew Basile Dec 11

  • Fiction

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