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The Astronomy of Melancholy
Arnaud Gerspacher considers “Sad Planets” by Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker.
All Reviews
Uncinematic Visions of War
Evan Hill finds himself mired down in Alex Garland’s “Warfare.”
To Remain in Contradiction
Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi attends an exhibition of Bruce Nauman’s early work, at Marian Goodman Gallery in Los Angeles.
Paranoia, Perspicacity, and Afro-Asian Pessimism
Anne Anlin Cheng looks deeper into Ryan Coogler’s new film “Sinners” and its violent exploration of racial oppression.
The Politics of Apoliticism
Kieran Setiya reviews Christoph Schuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy.”
The Legend of Bloomsbury
Isabelle Stuart examines Megan Hunter’s new novel, “Days of Light.”
An Unkillable Streak of the Utopian
Sophie Lewis considers Keiran Goddard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.”
A Map to Black Paris
Doyle D. Calhoun visits “Black Paris: Artistic Circulations and Anti-Colonial Struggles, 1950–2000” at the Centre Pompidou.
Fetishizing the Right, from McCarthy to Musk
L. Benjamin Rolsky explores Quinn Slobodian’s “Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.”
Two Maoisms
Guobin Yang dives into two new books on Mao-era China.
If We Could Talk to the Animals
Andrew Koenig considers Elisha Cohn’s “Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel.”
Is Restructuring the Answer?
Joel Seligman discusses Stephen H. Legomsky’s radical call for restructuring the American republic.
Daughters Are Not Like Spilled Water
Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews recent books about the aftermath of China’s one-child policy and the experience of women in contemporary China.
Drawing Out Twombly
Cy Twombly was all over New York and Dean Rader was there to see it.
If Not a Nemesis, a Mirror?
Chris Featherman looks at Marlène Laruelle’s “Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime.”
Every Word Is to Be Construed in Favor of Liberty
Joshua D. Rothman reviews Zaakir Tameez’s biography “Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation.”
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