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There’s a pervasive censoriousness right now—conservatives denouncing liberals, liberals denouncing leftists, leftists denouncing other leftists—that’s immediately familiar from the days and weeks after 9/11.
I talked to a man wearing a sweatsuit with the Palestinian flag on it. He told me that his father came here in 1976. It’s ethnic cleansing, it’s an illegal occupation of Palestinian land, and what you’re seeing is people fighting after they’ve been backed into a corner, he said. He likened the struggle to South Africa and Algeria. It’s the same old imperialism and colonialism, he said.
Please join us for a celebration of the first publications from Winter Editions, a new small press recently founded by Matvei Yankelevich. Richard Hell, Garth Graeper, Marina Tëmkina, and Emily Simon will read from their recent Winter Editions books, and Lydia Cortes and Peter Bushyeager will read from Lewis Warsh’s translation of Robert Desnos. Readings […]
NOTE: Due to flooding in Brooklyn, this event has been canceled! Join two n+1 contributors—novelist and translator Francesco Pacifico, and critic and novelist Jesse McCarthy—as they discuss fiction, translation, and criticism. Both writers will also read from their work. n+1 coeditor Mark Krotov will moderate. The event is free and open to the public, and […]
Affable volunteers, retirees of the model-railroad-enthusiast type, deliver their best chestnuts when you approach one of the transplanted structures that make up the village. Some of the big names of American business and technology are represented: there is a Wright Brothers bicycle shop, an Edison lab, a Heinz ketchup house.
The last years of Bhumibol coincided with the emergence of a new generation in Thailand, which grew up during a time in which the royal propaganda started to subside. Around this time too, the emergence of social media served to expand political horizons, showing young Thais how people fought for democracy in other parts of the world.
Confidence FOX Sports has donated considerable advertising time during the 2023 Women’s World Cup to something called The Foundation for a Better Life, a nonprofit organization that makes video public service announcements promoting positive values. At first these look like an ad for a congressional candidate or Xfinity, but at the end of each one, […]
Pitching with Collaborative Solidarity—Toward the Artist, with Wonder Writing is a solitary practice; writing about art, lonelier still. I might spend days deliberating over the right words, crawling toward what feels right and exploring something that might’ve been better untouched by my perspective. But I am never truly alone when I write. The writers I […]