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No Mothers, No Daughters

Jessa Crispin

March 27, 2018

Taken from the introduction to How to Suppress Women’s Writing, by Joanna Russ, forthcoming from University of Texas Press. I have a vision. The streets of midtown Manhattan are filled with all of the professors, professional critics, editors, and judges of award panels. They ...

The Book of No Despair

J.W. McCormack

March 26, 2018

Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Modernist masterpiece with a new translation, makes hapless animals of us all.

Dr. Zuckerstein’s Monster

Gary Greenberg

March 23, 2018

Victor Frankenstein wasn’t cut out to be an avenging hero.

What in God’s Name Happened to Ricky Gervais?

Brendan James

March 22, 2018

Somewhere over the last decade, Ricky Gervais lost it. His nosedive is fairly puzzling: in just a few years, the man who inaugurated a new era of TV with The Office went from one of the most original voices in comedy to a complete gasbag. His stand-up comedy is excruciating, his ...

Fucking the Patriarch

Jennifer Schaffer

March 21, 2018

In three new novels, women protagonists overturn the "sage older man seduces beautiful ingénue" trope.

As Stalin Lay Dying

John Ganz

March 20, 2018

Is The Death of Stalin too good to be true, or not true enough to be good?

Condo-Maximum

Kyle Paoletta

March 08, 2018

What's going on with bland, shoddy architecture in the wake of urban repopulation?

Fear of a Black Universe

Kaila Philo

February 21, 2018

Can Marvel's Black Panther carry the torch of Black radicalism?

In the House of a Thousand Likes

Zachariah Webb

February 16, 2018

In the heart of the heart of the creative class sits Spring Street Social Society—a membership club for our times.

Cut the Music

Liz Pelly

February 12, 2018

The NYPD’s secret M.A.R.C.H. operation has been closing the city’s venues for years—should it be abolished?

The Thou of Zadie Smith

Lauren Oyler

February 06, 2018

In Feel Free, Zadie Smith's first nonfiction collection, the author courts the paradox of infinite subjects.

The Ovid of Loserdom

J.W. McCormack

January 22, 2018

In his second and perhaps final story collection, the author of Jesus' Son glimpses an out-of-reach infinity.