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Pacific Rim: Chomsky versus Zizek

An online dustup between two pop star penseurs shows them staggering through afterlives.

White wigs, black masks: Camover swag in Germany

The cameras no longer look at us because we’re famous; we’re famous because they look at us to death.

No one dies for poetry anymore, not even in Russia. Enter the oligarchs, who steer clear of Putin’s ire by sponsoring literary prizes.

The Globe theater in London

Books about London in its Olympic year and after see Americanization eroding the city’s gift for democratic gradualism.

Photos of movement, leaders, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Betty Friedan, Marlene Dixon

For Betty Friedan, feminism was humanism: a question of growth, maturation and identity.

Microtargeting Picture

Why privacy and anonymity are being violated online by an unstoppable process of data profiling.

On socialism or the Middle East, Fred Halliday’s intellectual flexibility was one of his greatest strengths.

How the American right’s obsession with male status legitimated the transition to a neoliberal ethos.

The students at Bunker Hill Community College may have difficult lives. But the best are as bright as any Ivy Leaguer.

Brad Gregory wants to upend how we think about the emergence of capitalism, secularism and individualism.

Blogs

New novels, poetry and short-story collections from up-and-coming and established writers of color.

September 24, 2013

The author's absorbing debut novel chronicles a young woman’s year in Paris, where she will have to choose the home wants most. 

September 13, 2013

The conversation about diversity in Science Fiction & Fantasy reveals how racism constrains even imagination. 

September 10, 2013

Literary conversations are not representative of the diversity of modern letters. We can and I will do better. 

September 9, 2013

If you’re under the false impression that the world is falling into utter moral disrepair, turn your eyes toward Pompeii.

July 26, 2012

On the late Daniel Bell, the very archetype of a committed liberal intellectual, and The New Republic's Marty Peretz, plus reader mail.

January 27, 2011
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