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Criticism

Race

What Happened to Kanye West?

Kanye represents what happens when the liberties of artistic genius are confused for political insight.

Christopher Lebron

Literature & Culture

Chronicling the Last Days of Old New York

In his acerbic and often hilarious Village Voice column, Gary Indiana documented a cultural world being lost to AIDS and corporate greed.

Jeremy Lybarger

Literature & Culture

Monsters vs. Empire

Trump’s Space Force is a bad reboot of the old imperial fantasy of control from above.

Mark Bould

Politics

The Digital is Political

The political ideas we have held for centuries are ill-equipped to respond to today's challenges.

Clara Hendrickson

Literature & Culture

Lenny Boy

A personal essay on family, death, and the healing power of music.

Peter E. Gordon

Literature & Culture

Rewriting Poland

Novelist Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Booker International Prize, presents a multicultural Poland, to the ire of the Polish far-right.

Marta Figlerowicz

Literature & Culture, Race

Sorry, Not Sorry

Boots Riley's new film roasts racial capitalism and issues an unapologetic call for revolution.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Poetry

The Order Is Bullet

One of the most important contemporary poets of Francophone Africa, Josué Guébo writes in language that is raucous, difficult, and outrageously beautiful.

Virginia Konchan

Poetry

Summer Poetry Reading

Reviews of new poetry from Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Kimberly Burwick, Caroline Crumpacker, Kathy Fagan, Jennifer Firestone, and Virginia Konchan

Hannah Rogers, BK Fischer, Vi Khi Nao, Martha Silano, Tamas Panitz, Heather Treseler

Poetry

“The Constant Accrual of the Divine”

MILK Dorothea Lasky Wave Books, $18 (paper) Dorothea Lasky’s first four books

Nathaniel Rosenthalis

Poetry

Hurtling Headlong into ‘Cruel Futures’

Carmen Giménez Smith’s fifth collection of poetry presents a nimble mind navigating a ruptured world.

Emily Pérez

Global Justice

What Are Human Rights Good For?

Global justice requires that we look away from Geneva and New York to the outer fringes of global power.

Mark Goodale

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