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‘I Still Would Have Had That Abortion’Well-meaning supporters of abortion tend to tell stories that focus on decisions rather than experiences. This is the rhetorical legacy of a...
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A ‘Life of Contradictions’As Indian democracy comes under increasing threat from Hindu nationalists, the Dalit politician B.R. Ambedkar’s fight against caste inequality...
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Documents of MundanityWhile I was preparing for this interview, there was a problem with The New Yorker’s website; when I searched “Doreen St. Felix,” I got what seemed...
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Grand Poobah of the AntigrandioseIn his five very different novels Charles Portis’s signature was deflation, his attention always fixed on how the world declines to make sense.
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Entwined for LifeLast year, on holiday in Cornwall, I found a copy of A Private View of Stanley Spencer in a secondhand bookshop. I was only a few miles from St....
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Shadow Drafting“Archival research can be magical, maddening, and sobering. Finding just one mention of an enslaved person’s name or an enslaved family’s home in...
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Counting the Dead in GazaIt will take time to know exactly how many people have been killed. Netanyahu has only made it harder.
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The CUNY ExperimentLike so much about New York City politics, the fates of the various Gaza solidarity encampments that sprang up throughout the city in recent weeks...
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Making Sense of the MissingClair Wills has long been among the most supple and illuminating explorers of the intertwined cultural histories of Ireland and Britain. She works...
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Those Who Stood UpI photographed Occupy Wall Street for a year, from 2011 to 2012. Nearly ten years later, as part of my work documenting the Covid-19 pandemic, I...
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Let It Tumble“I’m drawn always to a certain richness or boldness; I know I’m going to like something if there’s death, sex, and family all in the first fifty...
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Second Hand NewsPartway through David Adjmi’s new narrative play, Stereophonic, five musicians and singers, assembled behind a recording studio’s glass window,...
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Fanon the UniversalistAdam Shatz argues in his new biography of Frantz Fanon that the supposed patron saint of political violence was instead a visionary of a radical...
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In the Heart of BahiaFor Americans trying to understand Brazilian history, it may help to think of Brazil’s North as akin to the American South and the Brazilian South...
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Visible and Invisible WorldsWhile our brains do not simply mirror our surroundings, animals—nonhuman and human—are exquisitely embedded, suspended, in nature’s energies.
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Meloni’s Cultural RevolutionFor months now an enormous excavating machine has been drilling deep into central Rome beneath Piazza Venezia, at the foot of the looming Victor...
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No ComfortAs we encounter Shakespeare’s tragedies it becomes terrifyingly clear that we are not in a moral universe of comeuppances and rewarded virtues.
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The Workings of the SpiritA new history of Christianity traces a thousand-year history of its transformation from an enormous diversity of beliefs and practices to Catholic...
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Daily Verses: 16Today I feel on my tongue the bitternessof being. I feel the anguish enterthrough my feet. The day grows thinas a thread. Already the light is...
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Neglecting BeckettJames Marsh’s biopic Dance First runs into some predictable problems in adapting the life of a writer, especially one as recognizable as Samuel...
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Mexico’s Politics of BitternessOn the eve of Mexico’s presidential elections, Andrés Manuel López Obrador maintains a high approval rating. But his constitutional chicanery and...
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The Best Time of His LifeVinson Cunningham’s novel Great Expectations is nominally about the experiences of an Obama campaign staffer but is really a glimpse into the...
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Best in ShowA dispatch from the Art Editor
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Georgia EruptsI’ve visited Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia, several times over the past few years. It’s a likable place, with rich cultural...
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Why Not Memes?The first essay by Lauren Michele Jackson that I ever read was published in the summer of 2020, a week or so into the protests following the death...
