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November 2024
Michel Chaouli’s recent book “Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins” opens with a scenario familiar to anyone who has taught literature: he stands before a roomful of students, holding a book in hand (Kafka’s The Trial) and finds himself at a loss for words. The problem, it becomes clear, has nothing to do with...
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To understand bigotry, study the bigot not its victim. The exercise is a repudiation of the poison but it is also rational: bigotry is fostered, nurtured, and manifested by all manner of factors which affix to a victim – usually (but not always) a vulnerable one – but which have little to do with them....
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When the anti-republican Action Française group wanted to incite a revolution against democracy in Paris in 1934, they chose to perform a “freely” translated version of Coriolanus, Shakespeare’s 1608 play about a tragic Roman tyrant. Coriolanus has plenty of useful material for the demotically agitating translator. Audience riots ensued. Both the socialists and the fascists...
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After reading a large paragraph in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s short introduction to Sense and Nonsense, I took a hampered but hopeful breath and eyed the generous white space of the Northwestern University Press book. He wrote that in a genuine work of art something has been gained for the human race and “the work of art transmits an...
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This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook and X. Under various and ever-shifting policies curtailing access to asylum, dating back to the Trump administration and continuing through that of Biden, United States-bound refugees from all...
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WITH Hamze Awawde; Zack Beauchamp; Francesca Dannunzio; Shay Khatiri; Jessica Pishko; Matthew Sitman; A.E. Stallings; Rafia Zakaria An American Wakes Up in Athens, Greece After the 2024 Elections A.E. Stallings’ book Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and their Friends Framed the Debate around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon will be published in 2025....
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It’s almost over. This week, hundreds of millions of citizens are off to the polls to play their part in the great American exploding gender reveal party. It’s the most consequential election in living memory. Again. and the whole world is watching through its fingers. Of course we are. No other nation with equivalent international hit...
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In October, Trump announced he would hold a rally on the final Saturday of his campaign in Salem, Virginia. The decision to come to a small town in the foothills of the Appalachians made no strategic sense: if Trump comes even close to winning the state the election will have been a rout, and the...
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In order to attend press screenings at the New York Film Festival, you have to scan in your ID badge. These badges are color-coded, with orange and red representing high value members of the industry and press who always get in; the rest of us greens have to line up and hope the Walter Reade...
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