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“I Don’t Want To Grow Up”: On Oliver Ready’s “Persisting in Folly: Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963–2013”
Josh Billings finds good sense in Oliver Ready’s “Persisting in Folly: Russian Writers in Search of Wisdom, 1963–2013.”
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Flames and Famine: On Laura Engelstein and Anne Applebaum
“Russia in Flames” by Laura Engelstein, “Red Famine” by Anne Applebaum, and the legacies of the first communist state.
I Knew Somebody Would Come: Svetlana Alexievich’s Wars
Paul Delany on Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich and the legacies of war.
Russia’s Race to the Past
Why is Russia so eager to meddle in Ukrainian affairs? Because they see it as the true birthplace of Russia.
“A Kiss Across the Stage”: Michael Longley’s “Angel Hill” and the Legacy of Seamus Heaney
Isaac Nowell reviews Michael Longley’s “Angel Hill.”
Of Walls and Wanderings
Jackson Arn reviews Agnès Varda and JR’s “Faces Places (Visages Villages).”
Pirates, Democracy, and the Digital Revolution
Roslyn Fuller considers the Pirate Party's recent success in Iceland and whether it could signal a new path in American politics.
The Beauty of a Rom-Com
Alex Weintraub considers the act of making love in Claire Denis's "Let the Sunshine In."
The Banality of Virtue
A new moral philosophy for the era of globalization.
Helena Modjeska: California’s Stage Star
Gerald Maa on Helena Modjeska, the quintessentially Californian immigrant, homesteader, and theatrical star.
After Goudou Goudou: Ordinary Lives in Port-au-Prince
Amy Wilentz on a new oral history of Port-au-Prince.
Ganesh’s Vibration Across the Borders of the City and The City
On Hari Alluri's "The Flayed City."
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