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Books, music, ideas, film, and art criticism from The Nation's "back of the book" https://t.co/dgr3pv2Yp7…
New York, NY
Joined September 2016
.@heidegrrrrl on Ingeborg Bachmann, @mattduss on the Democrats' foreign policy, @LailaLalamion on the Internet's lost souls, Sarah Chihaya on the novels of Susan Choi, @rodriquese on James Baldwin's lives, @HeerJeet on William Buckley—Fall Books is here! https://t.co/o9mnpQs44S
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@ZohranKMamdani @thomasbirm @simplylovia @NicholsUprising @KatrinaNation @typeinvestigate @BooksandtheArts @DavidAvromBell Nicholas Lemann on Osita Nwanevu's "The Right of the People." https://t.co/mbn3fWZyPl
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Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how.
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Our December issue—and our third to have @ZohranKMamdani grace the cover—is here. This one has @thomasbirm with an investigation into Israel's big real estate mogul, @simplylovia on Luca Guadagnino’s new campus film, Jonathan Lethem on Franz Kafka and his dog, and so much more.
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"Guadagnino’s films have always petitioned viewers to turn off their brains when it comes to love and sex." @simplylovia in the latest @BooksandtheArts on After the Hunt
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Luca Guadagnino’s films have always asked viewers to turn off their brains when it comes to love and sex. In his new film, he asks the opposite.
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@ZohranKMamdani @thomasbirm @simplylovia @NicholsUprising @KatrinaNation @typeinvestigate From @BooksandtheArts, @DavidAvromBell on Lynn Hunt's "The Revolutionary Self." https://t.co/I0zN7STw2Z
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How did the idea of the individual come into being?
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@ZohranKMamdani @thomasbirm @simplylovia @NicholsUprising @KatrinaNation @typeinvestigate @BooksandtheArts @DavidAvromBell And @simplylovia on Luca Guadagnino’s "After the Hunt." https://t.co/B44EtWA0JJ
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Luca Guadagnino’s films have always asked viewers to turn off their brains when it comes to love and sex. In his new film, he asks the opposite.
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.@simplylovia in @booksandthearts on Luca Guadagnino’s messy campus thriller After the Hunt. https://t.co/SwBJx5BYi4
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Luca Guadagnino’s films have always asked viewers to turn off their brains when it comes to love and sex. In his new film, he asks the opposite.
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Wrote about AFTER THE HUNT, a film of beautiful gowns and confusing intentions, for @thenation
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Luca Guadagnino’s films have always asked viewers to turn off their brains when it comes to love and sex. In his new film, he asks the opposite.
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Jonathan Lethem in @BooksandtheArts on Franz Kafka and his dog
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Kafka’s late story about a philosopher dog, like most of his stories about animals, is really about our lost humanity.
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Why did Kafka always use animals to convey his human anxieties and uncertainties? Jonathan Lethem in @Booksandthearts on Franz Kafka and his animals. https://t.co/0rNAQOalRT
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Kafka’s late story about a philosopher dog, like most of his stories about animals, is really about our lost humanity.
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The idea of the modern self rests on a paradox: people "loudly protesting their individuality even as they are swept along by the passion of the crowd." @DavidAvromBell in @BooksandtheArts
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My newest review, of Lynn Hunt's "The Revolutionary Self," in The Nation: https://t.co/wDncJMevf7
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"Sentimental Value" is a kind of film we don’t see so often nowadays—honest art about adults and their feelings. https://t.co/skRVnqcSQy
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In Sentimental Value, the Norwegian filmmaker’s most ambitious work yet, he examines the porous boundary between art and life.
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Joachim Trier FALL! (wrote about his new movie) https://t.co/vLEdFaVZ4j
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In Sentimental Value, the Norwegian filmmaker’s most ambitious work yet, he examines the porous boundary between art and life.
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BIG NEWS! I’m launching a new weekend essay series @thenation. The Weekend Read will take the form of memoir, first-person narratives, and dispatches with a political through line. These pieces will come out every Saturday on our website and on The Nation’s Substack.
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Gene Seymour in @booksandthearts on Chester Himes's genius as a detective novelist. https://t.co/Y1K6mkyuRi
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Himes helped reinvent the idea of the detective novel. He also transformed it into a powerful vehicle for social criticism.
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The Nation: “The proliferation of privately held companies during the Reagan years laid the foundations for Trump’s approach to government: rule by fiat and outside the scrutiny of the public.”:
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The proliferation of privately held companies during the Reagan years laid the foundations for Trump’s approach to government.
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Robin Blackburn in @BooksandtheArts on @HartmanAndrew's new book and the triumphs and travails of American Marxism
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Karl Marx never visited the United States, but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless.
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Trump is a product of the 1980s and the lasting changes in ownership structure that took place then and that still informs his theory of politics and the state today. Kim Phillips-Fein in @Booksandthearts. https://t.co/S5ninRai9U
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The proliferation of privately held companies during the Reagan years laid the foundations for Trump’s approach to government.
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Walter Lippmann was one of the 20th century's most prolific and public intellectuals and yet he had very little faith in the public he addressed. Gerald Howard in @BooksandtheArts
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Arguably no American journalist wielded as much influence as Walter Lippmann did in the 20th century. But what did he do with that power?
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