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  • 06.05.20
    “in broad dayliGht black victims look gagged”
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    dayliGht by Roya Marsh

    “in broad dayliGht black victims look gagged”

    dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for stories of Black women and a rebuke of broken notions of sexuality and race. In her stunning debut, written in protest to an absence of representation,...

    Roya Marsh

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  • 05.29.20
    The Deviant’s War
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    The Deviant's War

    The Deviant’s War

    In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a homosexual, and after a series of humiliating interviews, Kameny, like countless...

    Eric Cervini Excerpt from The Deviant's War

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  • 05.22.20
    Wagnerism
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    Wagnerism

    Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled...

    Alex Ross Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Meets Richard Wagner

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  • 02.27.20
    The Town
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    The Town

    This is Australia, an unnamed, dead-end town in the heart of the outback—a desolate place of gas stations, fast-food franchises, and labyrinthine streets: flat and nearly abandoned. When a young writer arrives to research just such depressing middles-of-nowhere as they are choked into oblivion,...

    Shaun Prescott

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  • 01.14.20
    “It’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL”
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    “It’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL”

    The extraordinary authority of the U.S. presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today that authority resides in the hands of one man, Donald J. Trump. But rarely if ever has the nature of a president clashed more profoundly with the nature of...

    Susan Hennessey & Benjamin Wittes

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  • 01.09.20
    The Black Cathedral
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    The Black Cathedral

    The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher, discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen...

    Marcial Gala

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  • 11.22.19
    Vernon Subutex 1
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    Vernon Subutex 1

    From the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize. Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Paris, where his name was legend throughout...

    Virginie Despentes

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  • 11.08.19
    The Russian Job
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    The Russian Job

    After decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States and Russia seems impossible to imagine—and yet, as Douglas Smith reveals, it has a forgotten but astonishing historical precedent. In...

    Douglas Smith

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  • 10.25.19
    Girl
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    Girl

    In Girl, Edna O’Brien presents a harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the...

    Edna O’Brien

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  • 10.03.19
    Mapping Our Vision
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    Mapping Our Vision

    Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act...

    Jonathan Safran Foer

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  • 09.06.19
    We, the Survivors
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    We, the Survivors

    Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man? This question leads a young,...

    Tash Aw

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  • 08.23.19
    100 Poems
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    100 Poems

    The idea for this collection of one hundred poems is not a new one. My father himself had contemplated such a book, particularly in later years, and had gone as far as discussing it with his editor and close confidants. The notion of a...

    Seamus Heaney

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  • 08.15.19
    Oliver Sacks at the Museum of Natural History
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    Oliver Sacks at the Museum of Natural History

    Assigned to write a profile for The New York Times, Lawrence Weschler began spending time with celebrated neurologist and author Oliver Sacks in the 1980s.

    Lawrence Weschler

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  • 08.09.19
    Valerie
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    Valerie

    In April 1988, Valerie Solanas—the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol—was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room in San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the pages of her last writings. In Valerie,...

    Sara Stridsberg

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  • 07.11.19
    Stay and Fight
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    Stay and Fight

    Helen arrives in Appalachian Ohio full of love and her boyfriend’s ideas for living off the land. Too soon, with winter coming, he calls it quits. Helped by Rudy—her government-questioning, wisdom-spouting, seasonal-affective-disordered boss—and a neighbor couple, Helen makes it to spring. Those neighbors, Karen...

    Madeline ffitch

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  • 06.28.19
    Spiral
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    Spiral

    A bestselling literary sensation in Brazil, The Sun on My Head is Geovani Martins's forceful debut story collection about favela life in Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on his own childhood and adolescence, Martins uses the rhythms and slang rooted in his experience to...

    Geovani Martins

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  • 05.17.19
    Tears of the Trufflepig
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    Tears of the Trufflepig

    A parallel universe. South Texas. A third border wall might be erected between the United States and Mexico, narcotics are legal and there’s a new contraband on the market: filtered animals—species of animals brought back from extinction to amuse the very wealthy. Esteban Bellacosa...

    Fernando A. Flores

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  • 05.10.19
    “Notes on Camp”
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    “Notes on Camp”

    This Monday was the Met Gala, with its theme “Camp: Notes on Fashion" inspired by Susan Sontag's seminal essay, "Notes on Camp." The night featured wild fashion, with everything from Kacey Musgraves dressed as a Barbie doll to Jared Leto holding a replica...

    Susan Sontag Inspiration for the 2019 Met Gala

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  • 05.03.19
    Losing Earth
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    Losing Earth

    By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world...

    Nathaniel Rich

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  • 04.18.19
    The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez
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    The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez

    When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida’s mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas, Arizona. By then, the border had become one...

    Aaron Bobrow-Strain

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