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Merve Emre on the function of criticism; Ottessa Moshfegh talks with Sheena Patel
.../09/21/better-faster-stronger-the-philosopher-of-palo-alto/> two new books about Silicon Valley. Considering Malcolm Harris’s Palo Alto and John Tinnell’s The Philosopher of Palo Alto, Tarnoff...
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Jared Marcel Pollen on László Krasznahorkai’s literature of withholding; Films and writings on free music
... The new issue of The Drift is online now, with Malcolm Harris on “ethical consumption under capitalism,” Tarpley Hitt on Hunter Biden, Noor Quasim on Annie...
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Michael in Black
... wrists. There’s a line in John Jeremiah Sullivan’s canonic 2009 essay on Jackson where the writer hails the pop singer’s body as “arguably, even inarguably, the single greatest piece of postmodern...
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Patrick Radden Keefe on his new essay collection; Jessica Valenti on “Canceled at 17”
... prominently as headlines; and the organization’s first event will be a panel with tech columnist Taylor Lorenz, Politico cofounder John F. Harris, and Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Patrick Radden Keefe...
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The 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award winners; Krithika Varagur on the birth of the American foreign correspondent
... they were covering as they went along. Varagur emphasizes that the model, as practiced by journalists like John Gunther, is outdated: “We’re no longer in the American century, after all, but, rather...
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All Together Now
... John Keene, the novelist, translator, poet, is one of these bold, singular artists who continuously redefines and recontextualizes American literature. From his debut with Annotations (1995), a...
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Triple Double
... POETRY AND MUSIC SHARE A LITTLE, mechanically, but are united by a common enemy: aboutness. What in the world is John Coltrane’s 1966 album, Meditations, about? As many times as I’ve listened...
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Jia Tolentino reviews Christine Smallwood’s debut novel; Lovia Gyarkye on bookstores and curation
... works when the algorithm rewards racism and bigotry and bias. It only works when there’s no check, there’s no certification.” Elizabeth A. Harris reports
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Artful Volumes
... photo in the book, a portrait of Donald Trump awkwardly biting his lip, they remind us of the dissolute fun on offer in pre-pandemic New York. --JANE URSULA HARRIS The shadowy no-man’s-land where...
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Nominations open for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black intellectual history; Paris Review writers on singular sentences
... At the New York Times, Elizabeth A. Harris and Concepción de León speak with food writers and chefs Toni Tipton-Martin, Nicole Taylor, and Kristina Gill about their experiences in book...
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Bari Weiss and Andrew Sullivan resign; The TRiiBE editor-in-chief Tiffany Walden on the danger of sensationalist narratives
... by Donald Trump Jr., Ben Shapiro, Bill Maher, Sam Harris, and Ted Cruz, among others. The backlash to Robin DiAngelo’s bestseller White Fragility continues, with new ciritques by Daniel Bergner...
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“The life of the artist was a life of action”
... Marcus Aurelius, The Hebrew prophets, Jean Jacques Rousseu, John Milton, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens and Karl Marx. They were tied to a long intellectual and historical continuum...