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The Ghosts of Copacabana
Gisela Salim-Peyer explores the Oscar-nominated chronicle of one family’s encounter with military dictatorship in Brazil.
Politics
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
A Brand-New Map Without Us
Jack Lubin reports from Super Bowl week in New Orleans.
Game Theory Gone Bonkers
Bill Thompson considers the new spy farce by Fred Kaplan, the national security writer for “Slate.”
Colleges or Caretakers?
Erwin Chemerinsky reviews Louis H. Guard and Joyce P. Jacobsen’s “All the Campus Lawyers: Litigation, Regulation, and the New Era of Higher Education.”
The Irishman and the Empty Man: The Biden Years On-Screen, Part One
In the first installment of a quarterly series, Brendan Boyle and Adam Nayman use two films as a lens on the Biden years.
Who Shall and Shall Not Have a Place in the World?
In the seventh essay in the Legacies of Eugenics series, Lily Hu asks whether the racialist and eugenicist roots of statistics can be cordoned off from “proper” science.
The Power of the Moving Image
Peter B. Kaufman argues that video has become our dominant cultural medium, yet we lack reliable archives for the audiovisual record.
Points of Entry
Mary Turfah writes on Lebanon and broken glass in an online release from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
Yet the Weapons Flow
As Sudanese civilians endure the world’s biggest displacement and humanitarian crises, uprooted political analyst Dallia Abdelmoniem unpacks the genocidal war in her country.
Give Them Space
Claire Foster reviews Jacqueline Feldman’s book about Paris’s artistic squat scene, “Precarious Lease.”
The Life and Times of Lula da Silva
Andre Pagliarini considers the recent biography “Lula” by Fernando Morais, translated by Brian Mier.
The Case for Kicking the Stone
Philip Ball finds Nicholas Carr’s “Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart” disturbingly compelling.
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