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The Thing You’ve Been Saying Your Whole Life
Julie Sedivy reviews Michael Erard’s “Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words.”
Cultural Studies
"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil
Writing to Liberate Yourself
Matthew K. Ritchie interviews Lawrence Burney about his new book, “No Sense in Wishing.”
A Child in the State of Nature
Mitchell Abidor reviews the reprint edition of Roger Shattuck’s “The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron.”
The Gaza Generation
Shaan Sachdev explores Pankaj Mishra’s “The World After Gaza: A History,” moral authority, and a generation of young dissenters.
Delicate and Dirty
Ben Arthur revisits a transformative moment in American culture through the lens of J. Hoberman’s “Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop.”
Some Women Want to Wear It
Soraya Sebghati outlines a canon of 21st-century Iranian film.
What Do They Want, What Do They Want, What Do They Want?
Kevin Koczwara reminisces on Jim Carrey’s film oeuvre, from “Ace Ventura” and “Man on the Moon” to “Sonic the Hedgehog 3.”
Viral Language
Helena Aeberli looks for rizz in Adam Aleksic’s “Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language.”
I Watch the Witch Burn
Reece Sisto reviews Jeff Weiss’s “Waiting for Britney Spears.”
The Undying Chinese Writing System
Colin Marshall reviews two books about the past and present of the Chinese writing system.
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.
Two Maoisms
Guobin Yang dives into two new books on Mao-era China.
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