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Landscapes of Memory

Saleem Haddad

September 09, 2020

Two Palestinian novels confront the ghosts of the Nakba.

Clinging to a Zine

Nathan Ma

September 07, 2020

The pandemic further endangers indie music journalism.

Body Meets Design

Emily Watlington

September 03, 2020

The best designers know the difference between a policy problem and a design problem.

The Dragon Rises Yet Again

John Semley

September 02, 2020

Reexamining the triumphs and tragedies of Bruce Lee.

The Pale Shade of Drag

Constantine Chatzipapatheodoridis

August 26, 2020

Drag has always carried with it the seeds of its own assimilation.

The Discreet Charm of White-Collar Jihad

Joseph Allchin

August 25, 2020

On the internet habits, social anxieties, and class biases of Al Qaeda recruits.

All at Sea

Harris Feinsod

August 24, 2020

Surveying the watery expanses of the world economy.

Bromanticism

Jeremy Gordon

August 18, 2020

A new collection looks at Greek life’s softer side.

Dick Pics, Dark Rooms

Patrick Nathan

August 12, 2020

Radiation, film, trauma, the elements: to expose is a one-way verb. The nuclear reactor knows nothing of the bodies it degrades. Light is invulnerable to the celluloid it stains. The man who exposes himself does so without empathy. There’s no unseeing a man’s penis, and even ...

Razors, Razors, Razors

Gavin Jacobson

August 11, 2020

How the United States abetted mass murder to save the world from communism.

The Hidden Faces of Apartheid

Bongani Kona

August 04, 2020

Uncovering the secret crimes of the apartheid security police.

Mirror on Mirror

Stephanie Burt

July 27, 2020

Two parallel women, millennia apart, whose carefully acquired beauty made them patriarchy’s ideal targets.