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Explaining Chinese Food—and China
Vincent Chow reviews Fuchsia Dunlop’s “Invitation to a Banquet” and Thomas David DuBois’s “China in Seven Banquets.”
Cultural Studies
"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil
There’s No Surviving Without Hope
Nicole Graev Lipson interviews Jerald Walker about his new essay collection, “Magically Black.”
When Art Evolves, We Evolve
Brendan Riley reviews Cisco Bradley’s “The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront.”
New Languages, New Music
Rosanna Young Oh reviews Jimin Seo’s "OSSIA."
The Impossibility of Children’s Television
Madeline Ullrich explores the contradictions of “children’s television” in the Max/ID series “Quiet on Set” and Jane Schoenbrun’s film “I Saw the TV Glow.”
How Are We Not Talking About This All the Time?
Victoria Sturtevant reviews Pamela Adlon’s new film “Babes.”
How to Hug a Cactus Tree
Paul Allen Anderson reviews Ann Powers’s “Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell.”
The Editor Is Willing to Buy the Manuscript
Timo Schaefer reviews Mateo Jarquín’s “The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History.”
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.
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.”
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