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January 16, 2020
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January 15, 2020
H.T. Tsiang, the Flâneur of Socialist Fiction
In the Chinese writer’s novels we are given a portrait of a New York City for the rich and the poor, the immigrant and the native-born, the newly homeless and the seasoned itinerant.
Nawal Arjini
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January 14, 2020
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January 14, 2020
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January 14, 2020
Letters From the January 27, 2020, Issue
Old struggle, new politics… For shame… The truth about these truths… The collective is political…
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January 13, 2020
The Journalism of Gabriel García Márquez
His fiction and nonfiction can be seen as facets of a single, lifelong narrative enterprise.
Tony Wood
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January 13, 2020
The ‘Revolution of ’89’ Did Not Initiate a New Era of History
Though significant, the end of the Cold War ranks well below the fall of Russia’s Romanov dynasty (1917) or the discovery of penicillin (1928) as a turning point in the history of the modern world.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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January 8, 2020
The Letters Behind One of American Poetry’s Most Infamous Books
The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979, which collects the correspondence between Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell, is an extraordinary philosophical inquiry into what is permissible in a work of art.
Dustin Illingworth
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January 7, 2020
Eka Kurniawan’s Disorienting ‘Kitchen Curse’ Is a Punk Critique of Colonialism
The Indonesian writer’s short story collection tells tales of hope and disappointment from Reformasi, the period following the ouster of the country's dictator Suharto.
Noah Flora
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January 6, 2020
The Tiki Bar Resurgence of the Trump Era
It’s tacky and willfully inauthentic. Of course it’s popular again.
Jackson Arn