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Do Not Attempt to Adjust Your Book

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Hag About Town

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May 21

Black Hole Sun

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In eclipse tourism, the sublime brushes up against the obscene.

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May 2, 2024

Parting Waters

Hannah Gold

The narrative of Jews as the eternally oppressed too often takes center stage.

April 30, 2024

Pinkwashing the Timeline

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Just beneath the surface of pro-Zionist discourse lies a disdain for queerness.

April 17, 2024

Stealing the Voice of Authority

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It’s embarrassing to write for the New York Times.

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Crimes Against Language

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In genocide, all language fails.

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Current issue, no. 73

It’s Not What the World Needs Right Now

Andrew Norman Wilson

Good Enough

Sam Adler-Bell

Psychoanalysis learns to love letting go

Naught for Teacher

Jennifer C. Berkshire

How Democrats abet the right’s war on public education

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The diary of a New York art museum security guard.

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David Berman

December 1994

Life is unfair. But then so is the law.

The Rule of Law in Shambles

Thomas Geoghegan

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May 10

Diagnosis: Burnout

Jess McAllen

Three doctors reflect on the state of the health care industry.

May 15

The Fear and the Fix

Jason W. Moore

How mainstream environmentalism fell under the sway of benign reformism

May 14

Disaster of the House

Oksana Mironova

Democrats have done nothing to disentangle housing policy from deregulation

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Diagnosis: Burnout

Jess McAllen

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The Fear and the Fix

Jason W. Moore

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May 14

Disaster of the House

Oksana Mironova

Democrats have done nothing to disentangle housing policy from deregulation

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May 13

Extravagances of Neoliberalism

Benjamin Kunkel

A conversation with Melinda Cooper

May 9

How German Isn’t It

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The ceremonial performance of Jewishness in Germany

May 8

Feeling Blessed

Christopher Hooks

At the Habsburg convention in Plano

May 7

A Perfect Telegram from Hell

Philippa Snow

The unflinching fiction of Heather Lewis

May 6

Boys Next Door

Will Harrison

Geoffrey Mak’s reckoning with masculinity

May 6

Echo #76

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A poem by Fady Joudah

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Wayne Koestenbaum

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You Choose the World: A Poetics

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Mónica de la Torre

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The Workers: An Essai

Wolfgang Hilbig

Money is a surrogate for language

May 3

Promise Land

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April 19

Da Steppt Der Bär

William Hayward

The thrill of being in the whale.

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