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Going on
Sarah C. Goff (LSE): Fair Trade: Global Problems and Individual Responsibilities. Gerald Poscheschnik (Innsbruck): Game of Thrones: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation Including Some Remarks on the Psychosocial Function of Modern TV Series. Katrina Wyman (NYU): The New Essentialism in Property. World Cup 2018: Why the tournament in Russia was statistically the best. What’s going on with Elon Musk? How the happy billionaire rocket scientist became a cautionary tale. James Stephenson and Nick Cohen on
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Paper Trail
California Senator Kamala Harris is writing a book. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey will be both a memoir and a current events book, something the New York Times notes is “a mixture well-known to campaign books.” The Truths We Hold will be published by Penguin Press in 2019. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s morning and evening …Syllabi
The Roots of the Alt-right
Mike WendlingDuring the last presidential election cycle, you may have read reports describing the alt-right—a loosely organized group of anti-PC, anti-feminist, race-obsessed online warriors—as a strange, newly …- Marriage Reimagined Laura Smith
- "We Are Revolution": Introducing Asia's Proletarian Lit Matt Turner
Daily Review
Homeplace
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest recorded use of the word “honky-tonk” dates to 1899, in the Fort Worth Daily Gazette. “A petition to the council is being circulated for signatures, asking that the Honky Tonk theater on Main Street be reopened,” … 
- The Overstory
by Richard Powers
Interviews
Keith Gessen
Keith Gessen’s timely and hilarious new novel, A Terrible Country, arrives ten years after his first, All the Sad Young Literary Men. The story follows Andrei Kaplan, an overeducated, underemployed young academic as he relocates to Moscow to look after his sick grandmother in the summer of 2008. Over the course of the year, Andrei cares for his grandmother, plays hockey, befriends revolutionaries, and falls in love.
…- Country fans no longer resemble the characters in country songs; they are salaried …
- Louis XIV would seem to offer a natural opening for an exegesis of seventeenth-century …
- The tabloid photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, produced many iconic …
- In one sense, Keith Gessen’s A Terrible Country picks up where his first novel, All …
- HALF A CENTURY AGO, when Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel was published, reasonable people …
- STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a flop when it came out. It was a big …
- FAYE HAS JUST BOARDED an airplane when Kudos, the third novel in a trilogy about her …
- IN JANUARY, I received a package containing one twenty-dollar bill and one postcard …
Reviews
Excerpt
The Man Without a Nation
Amitava Kumar
The one activity that was perhaps the most stable part of my identity that first semester was the seminar I was taking with Ehsaan Ali. His class Colonial Encounters was held on Friday afternoons. The seminar participants required his special permission to join.
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