the rise of red china
by robert goldston
Israeli police raid Jerusalem bookshops and arrest Palestinian owners
Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmed Muna were held overnight on charges of “violating public order” after the Educational Bookstore shops were ransacked. Images on social media showed piles of…
A Roon with a View
Modernism meets millennial in a novel of sibling rivalry and complicated romance
Drama King
Evidently, one has many experiences as an actor that are incommunicable, or at least not directly communicated. But this is not so isolating as it may seem. Pacino has come…
I Am a Truck
by Michelle Winters
Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals
The twin tragedies alter the understanding of the themes of Frankenstein. It is often read as a warning about the perils of science, but as the daughter of Wollstonecraft, England’s…
My Brilliant Frenemy
The contentious bond between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz
I Want You to Want Me
Charlotte Shane discusses desire, sex work, and writing
Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car
Comics for Beautiful, Awful and Ordinary Days