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May 26, 2021
Magazine
Benjamin Kunkel
The Climate Case for Property Destruction
Andreas Malm’s “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” urges activists to turn to tougher tactics.
May 26, 2021
John Semley
What’s Wrong With Bob Dylan’s Biographers?
The fiercely competitive field of Dylanology pits expert against expert. No one is spared—not even Dylan himself.
May 25, 2021
Magazine
Patrick Blanchfield
The Professor Who Became a Cop
Rosa Brooks wanted to fix law enforcement. She decided to become a police officer.
May 25, 2021
Alex Norcia
The Weak, Unconvincing Case Against Vaping
Has our collective concern over teen vaping led us to ignore the lives of millions and millions of smokers?
May 24, 2021
Magazine
Dan Xin Huang
China Is Proud of Its Covid Response. But Taiwan’s Was Better.
How the island nation charted a path between Chinese authoritarianism and Western chaos
May 21, 2021
Jo Livingstone
Angelina Jolie’s
Those Who Wish Me Dead
Is a Different Kind of Disaster Movie
Hollywood’s most compelling action star returns to the big screen in a rare movie about wildfire.
May 21, 2021
Alex Shephard
Blake Bailey Had Exclusive Access to Philip Roth’s Personal Papers. Roth’s Estate Plans on Destroying Them.
In the wake of Roth’s biography being pulled by its publisher, the author’s most dedicated scholars are concerned about the fate of his private documents—and his legacy.
May 21, 2021
Chris Lehmann
The White Men Who Wanted to Be Victims
From the Vietnam War to the present, how aggrieved men cast themselves as a discriminated-against minority
May 20, 2021
Magazine
Lovia Gyarkye
The Other Black Girl
Reinvents the Office Novel
Zakiya Dalila Harris’s psychological thriller grapples with ambition and inequality in the workplace.
May 19, 2021
Magazine
Lidija Haas
A Holocaust Documentary Interviews the Perpetrators
Luke Holland’s film “Final Account” makes a study of evasion, denial, and self-justification among living participants in Hitler’s Third Reich.
May 19, 2021
Rachel Shteir
Tom Stoppard Versus Mike Nichols
Gigantic new biographies by Hermione Lee and Mark Harris reveal the possibilities—and the limits—of a life in art.
May 18, 2021
Sophie Madeline Dess
Two Paths for Erotic Sculpture
A new show pairing the work of Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke ends up stressing the differences between these groundbreaking artists.
May 18, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Great Streaming Rebundling Is Here
The deal between AT&T, Time Warner, and Discovery is just the latest shift toward consolidation as media companies fight hopelessly for market supremacy.
May 14, 2021
Alex Shephard
Simon & Schuster Staffers Are Still Very Pissed About Mike Pence’s Book Deal
Tensions boiled over at a town hall meeting with CEO Jonathan Karp about the company’s decision to publish former Trump officials.
May 14, 2021
Jo Livingstone
Branding ACT UP
On the aesthetic legacy of HIV/AIDS activism in our own time of viral panic.
May 13, 2021
Magazine
Win McCormack
The Undefeated
Ernest Hemingway’s one enduring character? Ernest Hemingway.
May 13, 2021
Lynn Steger Strong
How Adrienne Rich Changed Her Mind
A new biography captures a poet’s commitments, reversals, and reinventions.
May 11, 2021
Magazine
Kate Wagner
Why the Democrats Need an Architectural Vision to Counter the Right’s
Republicans are already advancing a distinct—if ugly and tasteless—aesthetic. Biden should follow in FDR’s footsteps and create a Public Works Administration for the twenty-first century.
May 11, 2021
Chris Lehmann
The Pandemic Planners Were Ready. No One Listened.
The heroes of Michael Lewis’s new book, “The Premonition,” are a band of intrepid policy entrepreneurs.
May 10, 2021
Magazine
Charlie Savage
The Rise of Private Spies
What happens when online investigators and detectives-for-hire take on intelligence work?
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