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Our 12/4 issue is now online, with @around.com on the sucky Internet, Ursula Lindsey on Vigdis Hjorth, Sophie Pinkham on Uzbek art, @robtsullivan.bsky.social on the Native American fight for sovereignty, Zephyr Teachout on America’s scam economy, & more.
Jed Rakoff on the high-stakes gamble of unregulated cryptocurrencies
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November 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Jed Rakoff on the high-stakes gamble of unregulated cryptocurrencies
Frances Wilson on Patricia Lockwood’s Will There Ever Be Another You
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November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Frances Wilson on Patricia Lockwood’s Will There Ever Be Another You
Annette Gordon-Reed (agordonreed.bsky.social) on Thomas Jefferson’s prescient and paradoxical views of slavery
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November 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Annette Gordon-Reed (agordonreed.bsky.social) on Thomas Jefferson’s prescient and paradoxical views of slavery
Our Holiday Issue is now online, with Frances Wilson on Patricia Lockwood, @luxante.bsky.social on Joe Brainard’s comics, Susan Tallman on plundering museums, @paisleycurrah.com on the attack on trans rights, @agordonreed.bsky.social on Thomas Jefferson and liberty, and much more.
December 18, 2025 Holiday Issue
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November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our Holiday Issue is now online, with Frances Wilson on Patricia Lockwood, @luxante.bsky.social on Joe Brainard’s comics, Susan Tallman on plundering museums, @paisleycurrah.com on the attack on trans rights, @agordonreed.bsky.social on Thomas Jefferson and liberty, and much more.
“Since building materials cannot enter Gaza without Israeli permission, the UN-endorsed plan effectively ensures that it will be impossible to rebuild in ways that would benefit the vast majority of Palestinians.” —Sari Bashi
Gaza: The Threat of Partition | Sari Bashi
On Monday the United Nations Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump’s twenty-point peace plan for Gaza, which creates a “Board of Peace,”
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November 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
“Since building materials cannot enter Gaza without Israeli permission, the UN-endorsed plan effectively ensures that it will be impossible to rebuild in ways that would benefit the vast majority of Palestinians.” —Sari Bashi
“There is no simple explanation for Amy Clampitt’s late-career flourishing. She was, in her own words, ‘no stranger, finally, to the mystery/of what we are.’” —@tonydomestico.bsky.social
Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
“There is no simple explanation for Amy Clampitt’s late-career flourishing. She was, in her own words, ‘no stranger, finally, to the mystery/of what we are.’” —@tonydomestico.bsky.social
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‘Robb loves Oasis. He is at heart an advocate ... Few of the many other books about Oasis are better than his.’ Andrew O'Hagan for @nybooks.com on @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social's singular 'Live Forever'. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Soundtrack of a Generation | Andrew O’Hagan
The Oasis reunion tour was a series of football stadium nostalgia-fests, with the fans the unmistakable stars of the show.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
‘Robb loves Oasis. He is at heart an advocate ... Few of the many other books about Oasis are better than his.’ Andrew O'Hagan for @nybooks.com on @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social's singular 'Live Forever'. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
“I don’t know if we’ve ever lived in a moment when artists were as self-conscious about the state of their own markets.” —Andrew Durbin, interviewed by Daniel Drake
‘Adventures in Sensations’ | Andrew Durbin, Daniel Drake
On December 18, 1974, Peter Hujar ate breakfast, met with an editor from Elle magazine, talked to Susan Sontag on the phone, spent the afternoon
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November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“I don’t know if we’ve ever lived in a moment when artists were as self-conscious about the state of their own markets.” —Andrew Durbin, interviewed by Daniel Drake
“From Samarkand’s madrassas to Tashkent’s jewels of Soviet modernism…Uzbekistan’s monuments testify to the aesthetic possibilities of authoritarianism.” —Sophie Pinkham
Mixed Blessings | Sophie Pinkham
Uzbekistan has a new biennial, but how many of its aesthetic possibilities are underwritten by authoritarianism?
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November 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“From Samarkand’s madrassas to Tashkent’s jewels of Soviet modernism…Uzbekistan’s monuments testify to the aesthetic possibilities of authoritarianism.” —Sophie Pinkham
“Indigenous people make up 6 percent of the world’s population, but their territory accounts for close to a quarter of the earth’s land surface, containing more than a third of remaining natural lands worldwide.” —@robtsullivan.bsky.social on tribal sovereignty
The Third Sovereign | Robert Sullivan
If there is hope for the earth, it will depend in part on acknowledging indigenous sovereignty in the face of insatiable resource extraction.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
“Indigenous people make up 6 percent of the world’s population, but their territory accounts for close to a quarter of the earth’s land surface, containing more than a third of remaining natural lands worldwide.” —@robtsullivan.bsky.social on tribal sovereignty
“Niu Lihua served a thirteen-year sentence in Miaoxi,” Ai Xiaoming writes. “At twenty-one, he had no reason to believe he would meet with such a fate…. [He] had applied to join the Communist Party. So how could he be considered a Rightist?”
The Road to Miaoxi | Ai Xiaoming, Ian Johnson
During the Cold War, educated people in free societies were so familiar with figures on the other side of the Iron Curtain that they were referred to just
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November 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“Niu Lihua served a thirteen-year sentence in Miaoxi,” Ai Xiaoming writes. “At twenty-one, he had no reason to believe he would meet with such a fate…. [He] had applied to join the Communist Party. So how could he be considered a Rightist?”
The “forgotten chapter in the history of the Tory Party” begins in “the First World War rather than the second, the trenches of Picardy rather than the beaches of Normandy.” —Ferdinand Mount
Flipping Britain’s Postwar Script | Ferdinand Mount
Understanding Britain’s postwar reforms like the National Health Service requires peering into the ‘lost world’ of wartime conservatism.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The “forgotten chapter in the history of the Tory Party” begins in “the First World War rather than the second, the trenches of Picardy rather than the beaches of Normandy.” —Ferdinand Mount
“What we’re experiencing now is in some sense a crisis of reproduction of the boomer worldview. What worked for the boomers as a generation is just not working for everybody else, because they were world-historically unique.” —Nic Johnson
Runaway Short-Termism | Susannah Glickman, Nic Johnson
Since retaking the presidency in January, Donald Trump has initiated a blitz of chaotic, damaging economic policies. For months, as Nic Johnson wrote in
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November 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
“What we’re experiencing now is in some sense a crisis of reproduction of the boomer worldview. What worked for the boomers as a generation is just not working for everybody else, because they were world-historically unique.” —Nic Johnson
“[Vigdis Hjorth’s] If Only is an anti-love story, a reverse romance: instead of hoping and waiting for the lovers to get together, you dread their being finally united.” —@ursulind.bsky.social
Clarity and Delusion | Ursula Lindsey
The Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth has a gift for depicting painful, confusing, and mortifying relationships.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“[Vigdis Hjorth’s] If Only is an anti-love story, a reverse romance: instead of hoping and waiting for the lovers to get together, you dread their being finally united.” —@ursulind.bsky.social
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My piece on the life and work of Amy Clampitt.
“No matter where she was, Amy Clampitt found the dynamism of the natural world—the light on the oceans and light on the prairies, birds flying and alders spreading—visually irresistible.” —@tonydomestico.bsky.social
Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My piece on the life and work of Amy Clampitt.
“No matter where she was, Amy Clampitt found the dynamism of the natural world—the light on the oceans and light on the prairies, birds flying and alders spreading—visually irresistible.” —@tonydomestico.bsky.social
Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
www.nybooks.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“No matter where she was, Amy Clampitt found the dynamism of the natural world—the light on the oceans and light on the prairies, birds flying and alders spreading—visually irresistible.” —@tonydomestico.bsky.social
“Radu Jude's Dracula,” write Anna Shechtman and D.A. Miller, is “above all...a metaphor for monopoly capitalism: parasitic, bloodsucking, feeding off living labor.”
Shithole Cinema | Anna Shechtman, D. A. Miller
In Radu Jude’s Romania, people don’t have a good word to say about the country or its citizens; on the contrary, they curse the place with a vehemence as
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November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“Radu Jude's Dracula,” write Anna Shechtman and D.A. Miller, is “above all...a metaphor for monopoly capitalism: parasitic, bloodsucking, feeding off living labor.”
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Here’s the memo I would have written had Trump asked me if he could lawfully kill suspected drug smugglers on high seas. I guess I would have been “reassigned.”
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Getting Away with Murder | David Cole
During his first presidential campaign Donald Trump famously claimed that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose
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November 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Here’s the memo I would have written had Trump asked me if he could lawfully kill suspected drug smugglers on high seas. I guess I would have been “reassigned.”
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Thought this was a devastatingly clear insight from Fintan O'Toole (@fotoole.bsky.social) that no one else has entirely broached, so far as I know (cf. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...).
November 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Thought this was a devastatingly clear insight from Fintan O'Toole (@fotoole.bsky.social) that no one else has entirely broached, so far as I know (cf. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...).
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new interview !
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Runaway Short-Termism | Susannah Glickman, Nic Johnson
Since retaking the presidency in January, Donald Trump has initiated a blitz of chaotic, damaging economic policies. For months, as Nic Johnson wrote in
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November 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
new interview !
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"Palestinians will struggle to remain even in the 47 percent of Gaza still accessible to them. That may well, in fact, be precisely what the current reconstruction plans are meant to achieve."
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Gaza: The Threat of Partition | Sari Bashi
On Monday the United Nations Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump’s twenty-point peace plan for Gaza, which creates a “Board of Peace,”
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November 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Palestinians will struggle to remain even in the 47 percent of Gaza still accessible to them. That may well, in fact, be precisely what the current reconstruction plans are meant to achieve."
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Pretending to loudly approve of some aspects of a group’s existence, while maintaining a steady backbeat of scorn, disgust and degradation, is a strategy more people should notice happening more often.
“In Spain, the effort to revive Franco’s reputation has been accompanied by ostentatious philosemitism…. This blend of philosemitism and antisemitism has also become a feature of the Trump administration.” —@dankaufman70.bsky.social
‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan Kaufman
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Pretending to loudly approve of some aspects of a group’s existence, while maintaining a steady backbeat of scorn, disgust and degradation, is a strategy more people should notice happening more often.
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"But software doesn’t eat anything. Tech companies do, when they gain the power to use the levers of the information economy to consolidate and dominate." @around.com on "How the Web Was Lost" for @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
How the Web Was Lost | James Gleick
The Internet was not meant to suck.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
"But software doesn’t eat anything. Tech companies do, when they gain the power to use the levers of the information economy to consolidate and dominate." @around.com on "How the Web Was Lost" for @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Sari Bashi on the shrinking fraction of Gaza that will be accessible to Palestinians under Trump’s UN-endorsed “peace plan”
Gaza: The Threat of Partition | Sari Bashi
On Monday the United Nations Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump’s twenty-point peace plan for Gaza, which creates a “Board of Peace,”
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November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Sari Bashi on the shrinking fraction of Gaza that will be accessible to Palestinians under Trump’s UN-endorsed “peace plan”
Andrew O’Hagan on the men, merch, and memories at Oasis: Live ’25
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November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Andrew O’Hagan on the men, merch, and memories at Oasis: Live ’25