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Mementos Mori

Sophie Haigney

January 27, 2022

Why do objects disappear?

Age of Iron

Bongani Kona

January 11, 2022

What led the adversaries in apartheid South Africa to seek a negotiated settlement instead of a fight to the finish?

Spoiling for a Fight

Tom Stevenson

December 07, 2021

American analysts wildly exaggerate the “Chinese Threat.”

Lord of the Flies

Max Pearl

November 17, 2021

Science fiction and settler colonialism collide in Rafael Bernal's Mexico.

Singing in Dark Times

Declan Ryan

August 23, 2021

Michael Robbins, between hope and despair.

Drug War Fables

Leo Schwartz

July 21, 2021

El Chapo is the face of a curiosity we cannot escape.

Old Master

Dustin Illingworth

June 02, 2021

On the life and afterlife of the Bernhardian monologue.

The Music Room

Adeeba Shahid Talukder

May 10, 2021

On loosing and finding Hindustani classical music.

Lush Life

Elias Rodriques

April 29, 2021

Thulani Davis's poetry conjures a lost era of jazz.

London Calling

Daniel Trilling

March 31, 2021

A new book surveys London’s long history of immigration.

Castes of Mind

Suraj Yengde

March 24, 2021

On the intersection of race and caste.

Outside the Text

Andrew Marzoni

March 10, 2021

  A charming depressive with David Lynch hair and shirt collars unbuttoned to the nipple, Jackie “Jacques” Derrida was named after the child star of Charlie Chaplin’s film The Kid by middle-class Jewish parents in El Biar, a suburb of Algiers, in 1930. Thirty-seven ...