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How Vanessa Chan Came to Write a Global Bestseller, The Storm We Made

A graduate of The New School’s MFA in Creative Writing shines a light on a rarely discussed period of Malaysian history

June 5, 2024 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In the lonely period of the pandemic, Vanessa Chan could not get home to her family. In those years, she lost her mother. She sheltered in place. And she wrote her first book, The Storm We Made....

How Vanessa Chan Came to Write a Global Bestseller, <em>The Storm We Made</em>

Gender

The Furies Reconsidered

A review of Elizabeth Flock’s new book on women and vengeance

June 3, 2024 • by Gregory Laski

Read as a book about how institutions disempower women, The Furies makes the kind of actions that the three characters take seem not only reasonable but necessary for their survival. ...

Economy

From “Boring” to “Roaring” Banking

A review of Gerald Epstein’s Busting the Banker’s Club

April 29, 2024 • by Anna Pick

Harder to measure, but no less crucial, is Epstein’s identification of the intellectual “capture” of both the academy and policymaking institutions—their infiltration by financial interests and the economic paradigms that prop them up. ...

Music

Mitski’s Notes of Yearning

On being a sympathetic fan

April 17, 2024 • by Miranda Young

The liminality of Mitski’s work and its diasporic quality are related both to her mixed-race heritage and her scattered cultural upbringing....

Music

“I was concerned for her knees”

Mitski transported the crowd at King’s Theatre with a cathartic physical performance

April 16, 2024 • by Hannah Burns

I had been worried that “My Love Mine All Mine” was the only song some people had come to hear, just because it blew up on TikTok. ...

Art & Design

HE 2 SHE: Artist Pippa Garner Hacks Her Gender

The neo-conceptual oracle of West Coast transhumanism gets her New York minute

April 15, 2024 • by Abby Merrick

Pippa Garner is a fabulous, mercurial artist with an extrasensory attunement to cultural shifts, a habit of self-mythologization, and a taste for absurdity. ...

<em>HE 2 SHE</em>: Artist Pippa Garner Hacks Her Gender

Film & Performing Arts

A Band on the Brink of Collapse

David Adjmi’s Stereophonic heads to Broadway

April 9, 2024 • by Emma Minor

The image of musicians in a recording studio beset by interpersonal tensions—while making their best music—is so familiar it leads a listener to wonder, Is the strife all somehow necessary?...

Europe & Central Asia

War and Peace in Jonathan Glazer’s Zone of Interest

How the banality of everyday life keeps us fenced off from evil

March 25, 2024 • by Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus

In a way, our memory culture both in Germany and in Israel is an exact reversal of the reality revealed by the film. Perhaps that's why the film seems to annoy many people in Germany, who complain that it shows the "perpetrator's perspective." But memory must also be a memory ...

War and Peace in Jonathan Glazer’s <em>Zone of Interest</em>

Body & Mind

Forget This Book

In The Vulnerables, Sigrid Nunez elegizes what we don’t remember

March 11, 2024 • by Chloe Cheimets

Whether we remember them or not, the details of life still drive our lingering emotions. ...

Body & Mind

The Hunger Artist

Dead Weight by Emmeline Clein conveys the simple terror and intoxicating asceticism of anorexia

March 4, 2024 • by Josephine Houman

“I watched my body shrink in the mirror,” Clein writes, “proud to discover how powerful my mind was.” I know the feeling....

Reviews

Can American Liberalism Reinvent Itself?

How obscuring the public side of public-private partnerships from FDR to Clinton rendered the liberal state politically precarious

June 27, 2023 • by Henry Tonks

The DLC, soon to anoint Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas as their chairman and presidential standard-bearer, were leaving the legacy of New Deal and postwar liberalism behind. They were, after all, “New Democrats.” Or were they? ...

Can American Liberalism Reinvent Itself?

Reviews

A World in Motion

A review of Sindya Bhanoo’s Seeking Fortune Elsewhere

May 17, 2023 • by Palak Godara

Bhanoo evokes not the spectacular scenes of people in motion that fill the news, but the ordinary and everyday events that make up lives in migration, and how the lives of Indian and Indian American women have changed over the years....