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FictionFebruary 14, 2017
Sick for Home, Nauseated by Home
The lens of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Homesick for Another World is, almost without exception, fitted close-up on conversations, petty rumination, and squalid interiors.
Hannah K. Gold
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Books and IdeasOctober 20, 2016
How (Not) to Fake Your Own Death
Elizabeth Greenwood’s Playing Dead is a brilliant series of entertaining character reports, but her telling of what all the deceit and deletions add up to is unconvincing.
Hannah K. Gold
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Books and IdeasAugust 8, 2016
Oneida’s Original, Utopian Vision
Championing the free market is compatible with the company’s original free-love doctrine: The fierce desire of men to feel competent bankrolls both.
Hannah K. Gold
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Books and IdeasAugust 13, 2015
House of the Dispossessed
Angela Flournoy's The Turner House is a story of the living and the lost.
Hannah K. Gold
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CultureApril 14, 2015
Shelf Life
In Nell Zink’s The Wallcreeper, biology fails to determine anything at all.
Hannah K. Gold
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Language ArtsJanuary 14, 2015
Inoculation as Metaphor
Eula Biss’s On Immunity is a slipshod book full of brilliant moments.
Hannah K. Gold
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ActivismJuly 18, 2014
The Garden Where Rough Edges Grow
Organized by the New Economy Coalition, CommonBound brought together more than 650 activists, academics, and students to discuss what the “new economy” is and share projects that had been working to further its realization.
Hannah K. Gold and StudentNation
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Gender and SexualityJune 13, 2014
At the Frontlines, Youth Continue to Fight Queer and Trans Homelessness
Pride month begins in Washington Square Park with the continued legacy of the LGBT Rally for the Homeless.
Hannah K. Gold and StudentNation
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FictionApril 22, 2014
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CultureMarch 26, 2014
Shelf Life: On Molly Antopol
The short stories in The UnAmericans are studies of effusive remoteness and meandering revolution.
Hannah K. Gold