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The Life and Death of Conspiracy Cinema

The Life and Death of Conspiracy Cinema The Life and Death of Conspiracy Cinema

Why did Hollywood lose interest in making paranoid thrillers like The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor? Was it a change in the culture? Or a change in the marketplace?

Books & the Arts / T. M. Brown

Feminism Against Itself

Feminism Against Itself Feminism Against Itself

Sophie Lewis grapples with the ways the feminist movement has harbored prejudices and abetted wrongdoing in Enemy Feminisims.

Books & the Arts / Grace Byron

In Fred Moten’s Music, Theory Is Put Into Practice

In Fred Moten’s Music, Theory Is Put Into Practice In Fred Moten’s Music, Theory Is Put Into Practice

In the poet’s recent musical projects, he has pushed the sonic potential of verse to its limits.

Books & the Arts / Nate Wooley

Mary Ellen Solt, 1980.

The Concrete Poetics of Mary Ellen Solt The Concrete Poetics of Mary Ellen Solt

Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of communication and politics.

Books & the Arts / Alyse Burnside

Dodger Jackie Robinson stealing home in a Cubs game on May 1, 1952.

Brooklyn Dodger 1, Draft Dodger 0 Brooklyn Dodger 1, Draft Dodger 0

Donald Trump picked on the wrong athlete. Even though Jackie Robinson died in 1972, last week he bested Trump in a contest about the role of racism and the civil rights movement.

Peter Dreier

The Art of Separating: A Conversation With Haley Mlotek

The Art of Separating: A Conversation With Haley Mlotek The Art of Separating: A Conversation With Haley Mlotek

The Nation spoke with the author No Fault, a genre-bending examination of marriage and divorce that is one-part cultural history and one-part memoir.

Books & the Arts / Gracie Hadland