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Long game
Veronica Herrera (UConn) and Alison E. Post (UC-Berkeley): The Case for Public Policy Expertise in Political Science. Kenneth Roth on why the U.N. chief’s silence on human rights is deeply troubling. The Joe Biden and Anita Hill controversy, explained. Silicon Valley came to Kansas schools — that started a rebellion. Made in China, exported to the world: The surveillance state. So how do states recover from crises? Same way as people do. Kim Kelly on how women are transforming organized labor.
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Paper Trail
Anne Anlin Cheng talks to Sally Wen Mao about rage, Anna May Wong, and her new poetry collection, Oculus. “When I read about Wong, and her first-person accounts of her struggles, what I felt was more than empathy—it was identification. The feelings she wrote about did not require me to imagine, because I’ve felt them …Syllabi
Learning from Beyoncé
Kevin AllredBeyoncé Knowles-Carter makes perfect pop songs that also lend themselves to nuanced discussion of race, gender, sexuality, class, feminism, social justice, and so much more. For the past decade, I have …- Love Letters Kaitlyn Tiffany
- Outrageous Clarity: The Fictions of Amélie Nothomb Charlotte Shane
- The Roots of the Alt-right Mike Wendling
Daily Review
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
Bhaskar Sunkara’s Socialist Manifesto begins by entering an imaginary world. It’s 2018 and “you” are a die-hard fan of Jon Bon Jovi, “the most popular and critically acclaimed musician of this era.” So devoted are you to the singer-songwriter that you’ve found work at … 
Interviews
T Kira Madden
T Kira Madden grew up queer and biracial in Boca Raton, Florida, the only child of parents battling drug and alcohol addictions, In her widely-lauded debut memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, she details her coming-of-age and her search, admist such volatile circumstances, for connection and stability, She often finds those things—or semblances of them—in unlikely places.
…- AS CLIMATE CHANGE ENCROACHES, things will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells, …
- Fifty pages into this novel—Susan Choi’s fifth—I was ready to write about it. I …
- The polymath Dick Higgins once wrote that a book is “the container of a provocation.” …
- “I never pretended to be an expert on millennials,” writes Bret Easton Ellis halfway …
- We’ve had half a century with The Second Sex, The Dialectic of Sex, Sexual Politics, …
- The most striking scene in Who Killed My Father is also its most emblematic. The French …
- Bhaskar Sunkara’s Socialist Manifesto begins by entering an imaginary world. It’s 2018 …
- A specter is haunting the straight white liberal sixtysomething American dad—the …
- In her new book, Women’s Work, celebrated war correspondent Megan K. Stack remembers …
- GENIUS IS GENIUS in part because it defies narrative. Tall tales are spun to make …
- The protagonist of the linked short stories in Bryan Washington’s debut collection, …
Reviews
Excerpt
A Writer for Our Time
Joshua Sperling
In the mid 1970s John Berger began a new life—and a new family—in a small mountain village outside Geneva in the Haute-Savoie. He was close to fifty. At first he and Beverly Bancroft did not live in the village of Quincy itself, but up the road in an old farmhouse.
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