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Gowri Ramachandran (Southwestern): Math for the People: Reining in Gerrymandering While Protecting Minority Rights. Peter Littlejohns (KCL): Creating Sustainable Health Care Systems: Agreeing Social (Societal) Priorities Through Public Participation. A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality. Anne Diebel reviews We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages, and Ransom by Joel Simon and Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business by Anja Shortland. 20 years
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Paper Trail
BuzzFeed examines the Mueller report and revisits the story that Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress. At the Washington Post, Paul Farhi points out that the Mueller report shows fake news came not from the media but from Trump and his team. Also at the Washington Post, Carlos Lozada, who just won a …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
It Gets Worse
As climate change encroaches, things will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells, in The Uninhabitable Earth, spares no detail in explaining how. … 
Interviews
Nancy K. Miller
Nancy K, Miller is a veteran feminist academic—an early scholar of French feminist literature at Columbia, the first full-time tenured member of the Women’s Studies Program at Barnard College and its first director, and now Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. All of this history flows into her recent book My Brilliant Friends, a piece of hybrid autobiographical criticism about her friendships with the scholars Carolyn Heilbrun, Naomi Schor, and Diane Middlebrook.
…- The Clinton Hill brownstone where Kathleen Alcott’s second novel, Infinite Home (2015), …
- We’ve had half a century with The Second Sex, The Dialectic of Sex, Sexual Politics, …
- “I never pretended to be an expert on millennials,” writes Bret Easton Ellis halfway …
- AS CLIMATE CHANGE ENCROACHES, things will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells, …
- In her new book, Women’s Work, celebrated war correspondent Megan K. Stack remembers …
- “I still believe in the power of words to change culture.” That’s Lin Farley, a writer …
- 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.” …
- The protagonist of the linked short stories in Bryan Washington’s debut collection, …
- GENIUS IS GENIUS in part because it defies narrative. Tall tales are spun to make …
Reviews
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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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