Biden’s Selective Outrage
The rhetorical choice to pair Israel and Ukraine has not created a common moral cause. It has exposed a double standard.
November 14, 2023
An Open Letter on the Misuse of Holocaust Memory
Appealing to the memory of the Holocaust obscures our understanding of the antisemitism Jews face today and dangerously misrepresents the causes of violence in Israel-Palestine.
November 20, 2023
Fatal Embracements
In Tom Crewe’s debut novel The New Life, based on the first tolerant Victorian case studies of homosexuality, sex becomes a touchstone that helps bridge time.
December 7, 2023 issue
Child’s Play
Sofia Coppola’s film about Priscilla Presley feels like a document less of romance than of the comforts and dangers of fantasy.
November 18, 2023
A Fallen Artist in Mao’s China
Ha Jin’s The Woman Back from Moscow, a fictionalized account of the life of the actress Sun Weishi, depicts the hypocrisy of the Communist elites and the fate of those who embraced new ideals after the revolution.
December 7, 2023 issue
Free from the Archives
Edward Jay Epstein: An A from Nabokov“Nabokov said we did not need to know anything about their historical context, and that we should under no circumstance identify with any of the characters in them, since novels are works of pure invention. The authors, he continued, had one and only one purpose: to enchant the reader.”
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