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The Man in the Ravine: On Andy McCullough’s “The Last of His Kind”
T. M. Brown reviews Andy McCullough’s “The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness.”
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"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca
Rejoice, Artists and Lawyers, at the Mutual Goal of Art and Law: On Yxta Maya Murray’s “We Make Each Other Beautiful”
Ishani Chokshi reviews Yxta Maya Murray’s latest book, “We Make Each Other Beautiful: Art, Activism, and the Law.”
Imagine It Gone: On Megan Kimble’s “City Limits”
David Alff reviews Megan Kimble’s “City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways.”
Quiet Please: On Anna Katharina Schaffner’s “Exhausted” and Byung-Chul Han’s “Vita Contemplativa”
Josh Cohen reviews Anna Katharina Schaffner’s “Exhausted: An A–Z for the Weary” and Byung-Chul Han’s “Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity.”
Dated and Dateless: On Susan Zakin and Brian Cullman’s “A Journal of the Plague Years”
Katie Catulle reviews “A Journal of the Plague Years,” an anthology on the COVID-19 lockdown and aftermath.
Trans Panic Otherwise: On Jules Gill-Peterson’s “A Short History of Trans Misogyny”
Juno Richards reviews Jules Gill-Peterson’s “A Short History of Trans Misogyny.”
Gaslight, Gatekeep, Glossier: On Marisa Meltzer’s “Glossy”
Diana Heald reviews Marisa Meltzer’s “Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier.”
It’s Not My Job to Give You Hope: A Conversation Between Emily Raboteau and Manjula Martin
Manjula Martin speaks with Emily Raboteau about environmental writing and their recent climate crisis memoirs.
Keeping Humans in the Loop: On Hilke Schellmann’s “The Algorithm”
Evan Selinger reviews Hilke Schellmann’s “The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now.”
Sustained, Energetic Engagement with the Object: On Becca Rothfeld’s “All Things Are Too Small”
Kenneth Dillon reviews Becca Rothfeld’s “All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess.”
Ozempic: Reshaping Desire Since 2023
Ozempic is a drug against addiction. Is it also a drug for … virtue? wonders political scientist Krzysztof Pelc.
What Was the Sitcom? On Grace Lavery’s “Closures”
Isabel Bartholomew reviews Grace Lavery’s “Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom.”
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