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The Myth of the Knicks
In Chris Herring’s recent history of the New York basketball team, we get a behind-the-scenes look at the sports commentariat’s fixation on grit and toughness.
Zito Madu
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December 6, 2022
A New Kind of Trans Poetics
In A Queen in Bucks County, Kay Gabriel finds a connection between trans femininity and modernism as she documents one person’s winding journey from suburb to city.
McKenzie Wark
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December 5, 2022
The Question of the Offensive Monument
What do we lose by simply removing monuments? Robert Bevan attempts to answer that question in a recent book, Monumental Lies.
Erin L. Thompson
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December 1, 2022
The Polycrisis at the Border
Levi Vonk’s Border Hacker digs into the intersecting failures that have led to a brutal system of forced displacement in the Americas.
Caroline Tracey
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November 30, 2022
What the Grimkes’s Family History Tells Us About the United States
In The Grimkes, historian Kerri Greenidge offers a powerful and unique account of this family’s history—an account that offers tales of slavery, violence, loss, resilience, and redemption.
Kellie Carter Jackson
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November 29, 2022
Can the Origins of Today’s Right Be Traced to the 1990s?
While some might remember the 1990s as an era of good feelings, Nicole Hemmer’s Partisans argues that this period coincided with the rise of a more combative conservative movement.
John Ganz
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November 28, 2022
The World John von Neumann Built
Game theory, computers, the atom bomb—these are just a few of things von Neumann played a role in developing, changing the 20th century for better and worse.
David Nirenberg
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November 23, 2022
Staughton Lynd’s Radicalism From Below
The historian and activist dedicated his life to showing how, and helping, working people not only imagine but build a better world.
Marcus Rediker
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November 23, 2022
The Malaise, Mess, and Art of Black Millennial Womanhood
Chantal V. Johnson’s debut novel typifies an emerging genre in fiction, one that interrogates the intimate and creative life of Black cosmopolitan women.
Marina Magloire
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November 22, 2022
Inside the Dreams of Ling Ma
The stories in her collection Bliss Montage tackle the troubles of the real world by transporting us to the realm between sleep and waking life.
Jennifer Schaffer-Goddard