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July 30, 2021
Welcome to Washington Square Park, Capital of Woke Bohemia
A vibrant new youth scene is taking shape in Greenwich Village. Some people want to shut it down.
Richard Goldstein
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July 19, 2021
Where Do Wars Come From?
Two new books, Margaret MacMillan’s War and Martin Sherwin’s Gambling with Armageddon, offer close studies of how we end up, or almost end up, marching into war.
Michael T. Klare
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July 16, 2021
The Novel Solutions of Utopian Fiction
Climate catastrophe has transformed a minor literary genre into an important tool of human thought.
Kim Stanley Robinson
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July 14, 2021
Shulamith Firestone Wanted to Abolish Nature—We Should, Too
Revisiting her brilliant, irritable, deeply flawed manifesto in the pandemic.
Sophie Lewis
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July 8, 2021
‘What Would It Mean to Think That Thought?’: The Era of Lauren Berlant
Four writers on the legacy of Berlant’s thinking both in the academy and in public life.
Judith Butler, Maggie Doherty, Ajay Singh Chaudhary and Gabriel Winant
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June 25, 2021
Analysis Interminable: On Janet Malcolm
The insight and rigor of her writing changed the way we understood the work of psychoanalysis.
Hannah Gold
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June 22, 2021
Janet Malcolm’s Provocations
Her writing cut through propriety and pretentiousness and revealed us for who we are: desiring creatures, complicated and simple at once.
Maggie Doherty
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June 18, 2021
Un-Critical Race Theory
What if CRT’s conservative critics actually got what they want?
Joshua Adams
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June 15, 2021
Joan Didion’s Long View
Her new essay collection, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, captures what about her writing feels at once seductive and illusory.
Haley Mlotek
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June 14, 2021
Remembering the Pulse Massacre
On June 12, 2016, a gunman killed 49 and wounded 53 people, during “Latin Night” at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fl.
Andrea Arroyo