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Tom’s MenTom of Finland’s work has transformed from midcentury gay pornography to twenty-first-century art, but its troubling dimensions, as well as the...
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The Next Mass Extinction?In August 2023 dead elephant seals washed ashore on beaches in Argentina. First a handful appeared outside Rio Grande, a coastal city on the...
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Synthetic ThinkingFor nearly two decades, Jerome Groopman has been writing for The New York Review of Books about all matters medical. In our latest...
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In the Path of TotalityI. Andrew Katzenstein in Mason, TexasII. Willa Glickman in Rochester, New YorkIII. Daniel Drake in Warren, VermontIV. Lucy Jakub in the Rangeley...
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Voice LessonsIn December 2016 I was sitting in The Village Voice’s fluorescently lit office in New York City’s Financial District, waiting to interview for a...
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Into the CaveJo Livingstone and I first met at the Oxford Wine Café, a dingy spot just outside Oxford’s city center, in 2018. We had the most engrossing...
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Shipping’s Shadow WorldIn the early morning hours of March 26, emergency workers in Baltimore received a mayday call from the Dali, a 985-foot container ship. Shortly...
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Where Next for Mexico?In June, when Mexico holds its fifth federal election since the end of one-party rule, Claudia Sheinbaum is almost certain to be elected...
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Games We PlayThe Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong loads her canvases with about as much potential energy as they can bear. The paintings in her “Billiards”...
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The Forms of the Tools“When students ask me today how they can find their style, I propose they put their computers and digital drawings pads aside and discover what...
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Russia’s Election RitualEvery time a foreign friend asks me about elections in Russia, I go through a familiar cycle: first awkwardness, then confusion, then shame. I...
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The Road to Famine in GazaIn the days that followed Hamas’s heinous October 7 attack on military bases, kibbutzim, towns, and the Nova music festival, several high-ranking...
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The Price of Stability“Prabowo’s victory opens a window onto how the depredations, violence, and corruption of the Suharto era unevenly influence the present.”
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The Volcano LoversFor travelers in the Romantic period, Mount Vesuvius was an object of scientific curiosity, a political allegory, and a touchstone of the sublime.
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The Corruption PlaybookDonald Trump’s plans to destroy civil service protections if reelected is more than an employees’ rights issue. What’s at stake is democracy itself.
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Stifled RageLouisa May Alcott worked obsessively to become a successful writer, which meant that despite her gift for tart observation she often retreated...
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Sidetracks XXXIVabout Hong Kong I know nothingcarrying an underground book for the tripland at Kai Tak Airport coral reef shimmersstrangers look for the...
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The Long ViewMartin MacInnes’s novel In Ascension reveals the technical sophistication of the newest genre fiction.
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Human ResourcesIn her new novel, Adelle Waldman gambles that it’s possible to draw out the interiority of her characters mainly by sketching their working...
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A Hell of a PerformanceWriting in 1998, fifty years after the publication of his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer called his younger self an “amateur,”...
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Ufologists, Unite!Belief in UFOs sits uneasily between science and theology.
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Staying Alive“Today, the fifth of November, I shall begin my report. I shall set everything down as precisely as I can…. I don’t expect these notebooks...
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Gloom in UkraineTwo years after the Russian invasion, Ukrainian morale has plummeted.
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The Truths of Our American EmpireJonathan Blitzer's new book deftly explains the impact of decades of US foreign policy on Central America, but fails to move beyond the troubled...
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As Long as You Both Shall LiveJustine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall reveals that every parent’s marriage plot is her child’s Bildung.
