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Culture, Art, and Identity

Storm Over Columbia

New York Review of Books

The Burden: A Darkly Funny Musical Punctures Existential Dread with Unusually Cheerful Song and Dance

Haiti on the Precipice

New York Review of Books

WaPo Lets Bigots Frame School Culture War Conversation…Again

News of Mass Graves Isn’t Much News to US Outlets

Publishing is Designed to Make Most Authors Feel Like Losers Even While the Industry Makes Money

The Paradise Notebooks: A Poet and a Geologist’s Love Letter to Life Lensed Through a Mountain

The Marginalian

Acknowledging the Horrors of Gaza—Without Wanting to End Them

Two Decades After Its Release, ‘The Art Book for Children’ Gets a Vibrant Makeover

Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine, Sally Dworak-Fisher on Delivery Workers

Jason Limon Gets to the Heart of Human Emotion in His Soul-Stirring Skeleton Paintings

Buying back our things

Africa is a Country

“Choose Hope or Despair”: On John Shoptaw

On Elias Canetti’s Book Against Death

We Live In The Age of “Vulture Capitalism”

Current Affairs

Stéphane Thidet Challenges Physics and Social Norms in His Site-Specific Installations

“The Shining” Helped Me Acknowledge the Violence in My Marriage

Electric Literature

The hangman at home

What would Thucydides say?

In His World-Building Series ‘New Prophets,’ Jorge Mañes Rubio Cloaks Basketballs in Beads

Informed by Research Aboard Ships, Elsa Guillaume Translates the Wonder of Marine Adventures

Making of a Poem: Maureen N. McLane on “Haptographic Interface”

Ronald Jackson’s Masked Portraits of Imaginary Characters Stoke Curiosity About Their Stories

2nd American Civil War

Joshua Citarella's Newsletter

Kwame Nkrumah today

Africa is a Country

My Body Carries The Story of My Desire

Electric Literature

Photographing a Lost New York

New York Review of Books

Here, hopefully

Philosophical reflection often begins with a disruptive mood

Emergency action

[ON SALE] The Walrus Talks Canada’s Creative Power

Exploring how cultural institutions strengthen Canada’s social cohesion and the impact of our creative communities on the world stage...

7x7 2024 Videos: Ana Fabrega x Cristóbal Valenzuela

The first in a series of videos and posts about each of the seven collaborations from 7x7.ai Founded in 2010, Rhizome’s...

Caitlin Cronenberg’s Humane Asks: Who Would You Kill Off in Your Family?

For the good of humanity, of course...

Privileges of Misery

The Obscene Bird of Night turns the upstairs-downstairs genre upside down....

Baffler Magazine

‘Why are you crying, habibi?’ Mansoor Adayfi asked the elephant. He had got into the habit of talking to animals at...

London Review of Books

The Real Scandal of Campus Protest

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it....

The Modelers Have No Clothes

Predicting elections is an occult science—with a shoddy track record....

Baffler Magazine

Marcuse, Hegel, Fichte, Brecht

Photographs from my recent trip to Berlin. Prior to the discussion held at Brecht-Haus, on the German translation of Mark Fisher’s...

Pierre Poilievre Wants a Carbon Tax Election

The policies of carbon pricing have been twisted and maligned—and they could decide our next prime minister...

Helen Vendler 1933-2024

‘It is Vendler’s supreme critical virtue,’ Tom Paulin wrote in the LRB in 1998, reviewing Helen Vendler’s book The Art of...

London Review of Books

South Africa’s Enduring Unfreedom

An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, thirty years after apartheid’s end. The post South Africa’s Enduring...

‘The Rwanda bill is a legal fiction that makes the law look like an ass,’ Lord Anderson KC said in the...

London Review of Books

Are You Feeling It?

“I know what the hell I’m doing.”...

Baffler Magazine

Why the Taliban Love Social Media

The extremist group’s strategy to normalize its rule in Afghanistan...

چرا طالبان عاشق رسانه های اجتماعی هستند

استراتژی این گروه افراطی برای عادی سازی حکومت خود در أفغانستان...

Soul Aristocrats

The fairy-tale mysticism of Cristina Campo....

Baffler Magazine

How an International Student Became a Truck Driver and Rising Pop Star

Harkirat Sangha has joined the growing ranks of Punjabi artists singing about the Canadian dream...