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June 5, 2023
How CNN Went From Bad to Worse
Chris Licht’s disastrous reign is governed by reactionary centrism.
Jeet Heer
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June 2, 2023
Truth in the Age of the Deepfake
Could our interest in true-crime podcasts and celebrity biopics be telling us something about our collective discomfort with faking it?
Marianela D’Aprile
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June 1, 2023
Katherine Dunn’s Counterculture Parables
Dunn’s books are often described as cult classics, which fits not only in the sense that they inspire devotion but also in the sense that cults of personality always appear in them.
Nora Caplan-Bricker
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May 23, 2023
What Are Rules For?
A conversation with historian Lorraine Daston about her recent book on the history of rules and how they have structured life across centuries.
Ishan Desai-Geller
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May 18, 2023
The Indulgences of Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Ian Penman’s study of the German filmmaker’s work elucidates his “cocaine communism”—an aesthetics and politics of revolution and pleasure.
Andrew Marzoni
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May 16, 2023
Elias Canetti: The Last Cosmopolitan
Throughout his life, Canetti maintained his commitment to a humanity undivided by the artificial lines of a nation or state and standing as one collective whole.
Farah Abdessamad
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May 10, 2023
Another Side of W.E.B. Du Bois
A conversation with Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts about Du Bois’s thinking on imperialism, transnational solidarity, and their recent collection, W.E.B. Du Bois: International Thought.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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May 9, 2023
Chuck Klosterman’s Decade of Ambivalence
In The Nineties, he confronts an era that defined his career as a critic and waxes nostalgic for a mythic, pre-polarization America.
Jeremy Gordon
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May 8, 2023
Jeffrey Epstein, Harvard Man
Why a horrific criminal found elite universities so congenial.
Jeet Heer
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May 8, 2023
Santiago Amigorena’s Novel of the Shoah and Latin America
In The Ghetto Within, the Argentine novelist considers the dark shadow that the Holocaust has cast not only on Europe but also on Latin America.
Ilan Stavans