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July 12, 2017
Bill McKibben
What Would Thoreau Think of Climate Change?
On the author's 200th birthday, what "Walden" can teach us about our own time.
July 10, 2017
Bradley Babendir
How a Syrian Writer Takes on War
Osama Alomar's story collection "The Teeth of the Comb" looks at cruelty, compassion, and hope in the face of catastrophe.
July 10, 2017
Magazine
Rachel Syme
How the New
Twin Peaks
Made Television Strange Again
David Lynch wanted to create a small-town Marilyn Monroe. He came up with Laura Palmer.
July 8, 2017
Jeet Heer
America’s First Postmodern President
Trump's ascendance is no accident. He's the culmination of our epoch of unreality. What does that herald for the resistance?
July 7, 2017
Jo Livingstone
A True Romance, Then and Now
Sylvia Brownrigg’s new novel follows up on an affair between two women, 20 years after their first encounter.
July 6, 2017
Amir-Hussein Radjy
Rewriting the Iranian Revolution
A new book attempts to portray the Shah of Iran as a frustrated democrat.
July 5, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Nick Laird Is Getting Free
His new novel asks: What happens when everyday life is overloaded with political significance?
July 5, 2017
Clio Chang
Why Urban Dictionary Is Horrifically Racist
The crowd-sourced repository of internet slang is rife with racist and sexist content. But owner Aaron Peckham doesn't seem to care.
July 5, 2017
Magazine
Christian Lorentzen
Phantom Pains
The spirit of wounded masculinity haunts America in 'A Ghost Story.'
July 5, 2017
Moira Donegan
The Watermelon Woman
Shows the Power of Gay History
Twenty years after its release, Cheryl Dunye's black lesbian masterpiece is as revealing as ever.
July 4, 2017
Magazine
Kazim Ali
Text Cloud Anthology
July 3, 2017
Matthew C. Simpson
Benjamin Franklin and His Son, Divided by Independence
A new dual biography tells how the American Revolution drove the Franklins apart.
July 3, 2017
Sophie Pinkham
How a Russian Street Art Museum Defies Kremlin Censors
St. Petersburg's Street Art Museum, housed in a working factory, negotiates contemporary art, Stalinist kitsch, and potent dissent.
July 2, 2017
Jeet Heer
How Democrats Can Defeat Trump and Restore Public Trust in the Government
History shows that the opposition needs the antithesis of the president.
June 30, 2017
Magazine
Edward Hirsch
Czeslaw Milosz’s Invincible Reason
The author of 'The Captive Mind' became a political thinker who didn’t like politics.
June 30, 2017
Rachel Syme
GLOW
Serves Up Liberation in Lycra
The women of wrestling grapple with their bodies and forge their own destinies.
June 30, 2017
Ivan Kreilkamp
Song Lyrics Are Poetry
Adam Bradley's new book makes a rare, convincing argument for the close reading of pop music.
June 28, 2017
Magazine
David Sessions
The Rise of the Thought Leader
How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual.
June 28, 2017
Cora Currier
Yuri Herrera Rejects the Clichés of the Drug War
American audiences have come to expect "narcolit" from Mexican authors.
June 28, 2017
Ben Shattuck
Maartje Wortel Has Mastered the Art of the Aphorism
In "Goldfish and Concrete" the Dutch author proves that good things come in small packages.
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