Homophobes Without Homophobia
Bruno Perreau’s “Queer Theory: The French Response” illuminates the new politics of sexuality in contemporary conservative movements in France and the U.S....
The New Normal: On Dissidence, Apology, and Transcendence in Contemporary Chinese Art
Henry Zhang on “The New Normal: China, Art, and 2017,” at Beijing's Ullens Center of Contemporary Art (UCCA)....
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The Language Warrior
Rosemary McClure talks to legendary Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o about his short story, “The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright.”...
Strongmen and Fragile Democracies
David Kaye reviews Basharat Peer’s new book on India’s and Turkey’s strongmen....
Ghostly Parades in Lost Cities: Babel’s Odessa and Wittlin’s L’viv
Uilleam Blacker reviews the new Pushkin Collection editions of Isaac Babel and Józef Wittlin....
Making New Friends: The Genetics of Animal Domestication
The story of the Russian geneticists who domesticated the silver fox....
Getting Europe’s Right Wrong
Is Europe entering a phase of new fascism? Not so fast, says our reviewer, as 1930s comparisons fail on many levels....
Mad Russia Hurt Me into Poetry: An Interview with Maria Stepanova
Cynthia Haven talks to Russian poet, journalist, and political activist Maria Stepanova....
A Sudden Taking-in-of-Air: An Interview with Poet and Translator Robin Myers
Daniel Saldaña París interview poet Robin Myers about her bilingual volume “Conflations,” translation, and literary communities in Mexico and the U.S....
The Spy Who Funded Me: Revisiting the Congress for Cultural Freedom
Patrick Iber reconsiders the legacy of the Congress for Cultural Freedom....
Marianne, Under Siege
Lauren Sarazen considers “Terror in France” by Gilles Kepel....
Nothing Will Go Back: An Interview with Dr. Andrea Pető of Central European University
Stephanie Newman interviews Dr. Andrea Pető, a professor of Gender Studies at the Central European University in Budapest....
