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Cancel Culture and Other Myths

Anti-fandom as heartbreak
Kathryn Lofton

The Journalist and the Photographer

Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures
Brian Dillon

Nothing Is a Memory

Remembering Bernadette Mayer
Daniel Poppick

The problem is that, in much of our discussion of art, we’ve made a mistake about what moral engagement is, and so what art’s role in it might be.

Garth Greenwell A Moral Education

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Penultimate Activities

Alejandro Zambra
translated by Megan McDowell

Foreigner

Cristina Rivera Garza
translated by Sarah Booker

The Illumination of Santiago

Nona Fernández
translated by Idra Novey
Portfolio

Home Isn't One Place

A textile tribute to the Afghan diaspora
Hangama Amiri
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Terrains of the Imaginary

Finding escape in survey maps
Geoff Manaugh

Portfolio

Nobody Knows That You Are Gay

Imagining a queer archive
Robyn Day

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Exile and Memory

Reimagining Iran through 200-year-old portraits
Amak Mahmoodian

Throwing Punches in a Dive Bar

Three years into the pandemic, what does care look like?
Jordan Kisner

Preferences

Maureen N. McLane

Good Harbor Beach

Maureen N. McLane

You Were the Bird

Petite Maman and the axis between mother and daughter
Georgia Cloepfil

Ode to Babel

The ecstasy of Michael K. Williams
Roger Reeves

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On Anton Shammas's "Arabesques"

Revisiting the first major book in Hebrew by an Arab writer
Ratik Asokan

Books

Wong May's Poetry of Exile

In search of a language of unbelonging
Hao Guang Tse (谢皓光)

The Mother's Rage

Elena Ferrante and the torment of maternal love
Josh Cohen

All at Once, the Multiverse Is Everywhere

Why today's movies, TV shows, and literature love branching timelines and many worlds
David M. de León