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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 ...

All Roads Lead to Beijing

Matthew Shen Goodman

February 24, 2021

Chinese infrastructure policy and its Western thinkers.

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Matthew Zarenkiewicz

February 23, 2021

Fifty Shades of Grey with Iowa MFA bona fides

Arts and Statecraft

Sophie Haigney

February 09, 2021

Is the history of America a history of craft?

Run, River

Will Noah

February 01, 2021

On Juan José Saer's backwater modernism.

A State of One’s Own

Francis Wade

January 26, 2021

On the colonial roots of postcolonial violence.

Little Pieces of Metal

Karthik Purushothaman

December 10, 2020

On Philip Metres’s poetry of war and reconciliation.