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Infinite, Fragmented Anguishes
Tess Pollok interviews Aria Dean about her collection “Bad Infinity,” Afropessimism, police brutality, and Black radical thought, on the one-year anniversary of the book’s release.
Cultural Studies
"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil
Through “The Looking Glass”
Mikaela Dery reviews Sable Yong’s “Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity.”
Exhuming a Historical Myth
Minsoo Kang examines the persistence of Korean nationalism in the South Korean horror thriller “Exhuma,” directed by Jang Jae-hyun.
Ill Fares the Land
Spencer Weinreich reviews Robin Bernstein’s “Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit.”
The Dream of Han Innocence
Guldana Salimjan reviews “To the Wonder,” the Chinese TV drama that has taken audiences by storm.
No Justice, No Peace
Arvind Dilawar reviews Qamar-ul Huda’s “Reenvisioning Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Islam.”
America’s War on Theater
Daniel Blank reviews James Shapiro’s “The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War.”
Punishing the People We Claim to Protect
Gaby Del Valle reviews Kimberly Meyer’s “Accidental Sisters” and Susan J. Terrio’s “Forced Out.”
Flying Right up to the Sun
Katya Apekina interviews Priyanka Mattoo about her memoir “Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones.”
Eurovision in Wartime
Lina Abascal reports from the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden.
Mirror Images: Disabled Writers on Frida Kahlo
Jess Libow explores how disabled writers have taken up Frida Kahlo’s image and legacy.
The Myth America Show
Josie Torres Barth reviews Molly A. Schneider’s “Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture.”
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