Attachment Issue

Reading after Twitter. Criticism as nitpicking. Jessica Kariisa listens to Wizkid. Art and cows in a time of war. Mother memoirs and father fiction. Victoria Uren on Joanna Hogg, Gabriel Winant on J. D. Vance.
The Intellectual Situation
Politics
J. D. Vance Changes the Subject
Gabriel Winant
The Catastrophe in Turkey
Justus Links
Essays
Cowboy in Sweden
Sander Pleij
Love and Wizkid
Jessica Kariisa
Fiction and Drama
The Ellipse Maker
Caleb Crain
Kairos, the Lucky Moment—and the Long Time That Follows
Jenny Erpenbeck
Quarantine
Dorothy Tse
Little Miss Bigmouth
Veronica Raimo
Ace
Jared Jackson
Reviews
Outside the Museum of Literature
Nicholas Dames
Joanna Hogg’s Women
Victoria Uren
Careworn
Kate Wolf
Letters
The Cheapo Stuff Wins
The Editors
Middlemen

Why is everything gray? Two paths for the abortion clinic. Laura Preston on robots and real estate. Victoria Lomasko’s last days in Russia. The naked and the dead. Drama by Stephen Squibb, fiction by Thomas Bolt.
The Intellectual Situation
Why Is Everything So Ugly?
The Editors
Politics
Learning and Not Learning Abortion
Laura Kolbe
Three Times
Charlotte Shane
Essays
Five Steps
Victoria Lomasko
HUMAN_FALLBACK
Laura Preston
Naked
Judith Levine
Fiction and Drama
Area of Isolation
Thomas Bolt
The Suitors of Helen
Stephen Squibb
Dead People Rule
Introduction
The Editors
You Don’t Want to Know This?
Gabriel Winant
Our Godard
Blair McClendon
Miyake’s Layers
Hannah Baer, Nicole Lipman, Haley Mlotek, Su Wu
Letters
Gen X Weighs In
The Editors
Unreal

What’s next for abortion? Do museum protests work? Blow up a SCOTUS justice. Direct action and dishwashing at Line 3; closed caption poetry at the caption place. Nicolás Medina Mora reads Heriberto Yépez, Lisa Borst reads Lisa Carver. Fiction by Mark Doten and Vladimir Sorokin.
The Intellectual Situation
Your Body, My Choice
Dayna Tortorici
Politics
In Kherson
Elena Kostyuchenko
Fighting from Inside
Charlotte Rosen
Essays
In Praise of the Terrorist
Nicolás Medina Mora
Caption Place
Emma Healey
Migizi Will Fly
Bela Shayevich
What Happened Wasn’t Fate at All
Bushra al-Maqtari
Fiction and Drama
Dying but It’s Something Else
Mark Doten
The Monique Vaccine
Vladimir Sorokin
Poetry
Two Poems
Matthew Rohrer
Reviews
Museum Pessimism
Rachel Hunter Himes
Live Free or Die
Lisa Borst
Letters
You’re Wasting My Time, I Love You
The Editors
Vanishing Act

Arctic eco-heist! Did the New Left do neoliberalism? Digital projection: the phantom menace. The paranoid style in American politics, the narcissistic style in American podcasts. Haley Mlotek reads Deborah Levy. Sarah Resnick visits the cryptosphere.
The Intellectual Situation
Walk Away Like a Boss
Sarah Resnick
Politics
Lab-Leak Theory and the “Asiatic” Form
Andrew Liu
National Nightmare
Nausicaa Renner
Essays
Rust
Elena Kostyuchenko
Unfree Associations
Hannah Zeavin
Digital Rocks
Will Tavlin
Fiction and Drama
@elenchita
Paul Soto
The Two Imams
Zain Khalid
Reviews
New Left Review
Erik Baker
Shadow and Light
Haley Mlotek
The Everything Snore
Lisa Borst
Radical Narcissist
Nausicaa Renner
Letters
Buffettspotting
The Editors
Snake Oil

Proletkino, vaccine drama, Ralph Ellison in Italian, and billionaires in space. Translation from Iran and Ukraine. New fiction by Rose Rejouis, Elisa Albert, and Jill Crawford. Elias Rodriques revisits Mary Beth G. Andrea Long Chu tries brain magnets.
The Intellectual Situation
Vax 2 the Max
The Editors
Billionaire Follies
The Editors
Politics
Notes on Losing
Richard Beck
The State vs. Ms. X
Elias Rodriques
Essays
China Brain
Andrea Long Chu
L’Autore Invisible
Francesco Pacifico
Man of Scarce Means
Emmanuel Iduma
Translation
Elham’s Suitor
Mahsa Mohebali
Lucky Breaks
Yevgenia Belorusets
Fiction and Drama
Circle of Visibility
Rose Réjouis
In Thrall
Rose Réjouis
Mammals
Elisa Albert
Vale
Jill Crawford
Reviews
Literary Miniaturist
Mitch Therieau
Once There Was Cinema
William Harris
Letters
Literary Mercenaries, Ha Ha Ha
The Editors
Hindsight

So you wrote a thing. Automatic writing vs. the algorithmic unconscious. Who’s afraid of the #resistancehag? Rachel Kushner on Palestine, Tobi Haslett on the George Floyd riots. Fiction by Corley Miller and Vladimir Sorokin.
The Intellectual Situation
Critical Attrition
The Editors
Politics
Magic Actions
Tobi Haslett
Why Did You Throw Stones?
Rachel Kushner
Essays
Babel
Meghan O'Gieblyn
Primary Sources
Max Rorty
Fiction and Drama
The Groups
Dana Spiotta
Compensation
Corley Miller
Horse Soup
Vladimir Sorokin
Reviews
The People, It Depends
Erik Baker
Pictures at a Restoration
Blair McClendon
Letters
Check, Please
The Editors
Take Care

Who cares for the care workers? What next for the restaurant? Victoria Lomasko in Minsk; Joshua Craze in Juba. Anthony Veasna So on Pavement and grief; Matthew Shen Goodman on Minor Feelings. Fiction by Jenny Zhang and Christian Jungersen.
The Intellectual Situation
Who Cares for the Caregivers?
The Editors
Politics
Eye to Eye with the Beast
Meg Weeks
Fiction and Drama
Question Mark
Jenny Zhang
Rumble in the Jungle
Christian Jungersen
Essays
Baby Yeah
Anthony Veasna So
Knowledge Will Not Save Us
Joshua Craze
A Trip to Minsk
Victoria Lomasko
American Accomplice
Matthew Shen Goodman
The Speculator
Vanessa A. Bee
Reviews
Salt, Fat, Acid, Defeat
Aaron Timms
My Octopus Girlfriend
Sophie Lewis
Letters
Electric Cars and Excessive Fiction
The Editors
Death Wish

Jeremy O. Harris at !!!!!, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore at the gay bar. Deregulation as death drive, disambiguation as tragedy. Elon Musk reinvents the wheel. Incels and climate grief gurus. Defund the global police!
The Intellectual Situation
Consequences of Deferred Maintenance
The Editors
Politics
Defund the Global Policeman
Stuart Schrader
Fiction and Drama
Yell: A Documentary of My Time Here
Jeremy O. Harris
Banana Bunch Challenge
Mark Doten
The Remainder
Caleb Crain
Essays
No Shelter
Lizzie Feidelson
Disambiguation, a Tragedy
Nan Z. Da
The Freezer Door
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
The Earth Dreams in Ritual
Christina Nichol
Heimat(t)
Ida Lødemel Tvedt
Reviews
Architecture Again
William Harris
Fire in the Hold
Omari Weekes
Electric Cars: An Update
Dan Albert
Letters
Feelings Were Stirred
The Editors
Transmission

Coronavirus in the body, coronavirus in the prisons. The undocumented at Ground Zero. “We take issue with core aspects of American foreign policy!” Decarcerate sex offense, socialize heath care. Ari M. Brostoff on Vivian Gornick, Francesco Pacifico on Francesco Pacifico. Fiction by Lynne Tillman, Percival Everett, and Danial Haghighi.
The Intellectual Situation
Epilogue for a Way of Life
Marco Roth
From Now On, I Vow to Read Only Fiction
Nausicaa Renner
Living Inside
Rachel Ossip
Paraphrase
Sarah Resnick
Send in the Clowns
Namara Smith
Politics
We Used to Run This Country
Richard Beck
Coronavirus and Chronopolitics
Gabriel Winant
Uncivil Commitment
Judith Levine, Erica Meiners
Essays
Ground Zero
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
American Dream
Francesco Pacifico
Take Me with You
Jacob Burns
The Bad Feature
Danielle Carr
Fiction and Drama
Misery
Danial Haghighi
The Dead Live Longer
Lynne Tillman
Middlegame
Percival Everett
Reviews
The Family Romance of American Communism
Ari M. Brostoff
Letters
Craven!
The Editors
Get Help

Addicted to Instagram? Nationalize publishing! Nausicaa Renner in DC, Jeremiah Moss in his apartment. What to expect when you’re expecting climate apocalypse. German sheep, Russian bees. In detention and on the border.
The Intellectual Situation
Smorgasbords Don’t Have Bottoms
The Editors
Politics
The Custom of the Capitol
Nausicaa Renner
Parenting and Climate Change
Jill Kubit, Katy Lederer, Kate Marvel, Jedediah Purdy, Christine Smallwood, Mari Tan
Essays
My Instagram
Dayna Tortorici
Open House
Jeremiah Moss
An American Education
Nicolás Medina Mora
We Had a Shakespeare
Elias Rodriques, Omari Weekes
Regarding Bloom
Marco Roth
Fiction and Drama
White Square
Vladimir Sorokin
Life Is the New Hard
Annette Weisser
Reviews
Adrift
William Harris
Spanish for Vietnam
Mark Engler
Letters
Design’s Daddy Issues
The Editors
Savior Complex

Abolish private property. I was a teenage telemarketer. Lorelei Lee on sex work and consent. Not-boyfriends, no girlfriends. Pre-mourning diary. Mark Greif reads the Mueller Report. Thinking about design thinking.
The Intellectual Situation
Spectacle of Participation
The Editors
Politics
On the Mueller Report, Vol. 1
Mark Greif
The Evangelical Mind
Adam Kotsko
Essays
Cash/Consent
Lorelei Lee
Predatory Inclusion
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
White Voice
Dan Sinykin
Holding Patterns
Alice Abraham
Fiction and Drama
Parasite Air
Trevor Shikaze
The Feminist
Tony Tulathimutte
The Creature
Sarah Resnick
Reviews
Dreams Are Lost Memories
A. S. Hamrah
On Design Thinking
Maggie Gram
Letters
Right Effort
The Editors
Head Case

Rewriters, runners, and gamblers. Citational vanity and really quite serious mindfucking. Thomas de Monchaux looks at background buildings; Alyssa Battistoni organizes; the editors start a podcast. Andrea Long Chu gets a pussy.
The Intellectual Situation
Friends of the Pod
The Editors
Coalition of the Willing
The Editors
Politics
The Pink
Andrea Long Chu
Spadework
Alyssa Battistoni
Good Night, Boa Vista
Zoë Dutka
Essays
Special Journey to Our Bottom Line
Elizabeth Schambelan
Sexism in the Academy
Troy Vettese
Fiction and Drama
The Amphibians
Elias Rodriques
Jackpot
Mona Simpson
The Promise
Christopher Urban
Translation
The Hidden Fortress
Rose Réjouis
Ogresse
Rose Réjouis
Reviews
The Shallow Now
A. S. Hamrah
Vernacular Modernism
Thomas de Monchaux
Other People’s Blood
Tim Barker
Letters
No Extinctions
The Editors
Overtime

Kicking and screaming in the climate change era. Veterans against war. Mothers against school. Elizabeth Schambelan on Kavanaugh and bro culture. Richard Beck on the Korean peace process. A. S. Hamrah says turn off your phone.
The Intellectual Situation
The Best of a Bad Situation
The Editors
Politics
The Korean Peace Process
Richard Beck
Renewed Labour
Barnaby Raine
Fiction and Drama
Rededication
Imraan Coovadia
What Good Is Love?
Jill Crawford
Essays
Everybody Knows
Elizabeth Schambelan
Base Culture
Lyle Jeremy Rubin
Conversations with Bongjun
Christina Nichol
Homeschool
Meghan O'Gieblyn
The Painful Sum of Things
Pankaj Mishra, Nikil Saval
Reviews
On New Zimbabwean Literature
Jeanne-Marie Jackson
We Can Still Think Our Own Thoughts
A. S. Hamrah
My Fellow Prisoners
George Blaustein
Letters
Letters
The Editors
Bad Faith

We are all op-ed writers now. The Age of ICE. Something fishy about Smolensk. Something funny about bad atrocity writing. Notes on Trap. Notes on Hito Steyerl. Fiction by Lucinda Rosenfeld and Laurie Stone. Drama from David Levine.
The Intellectual Situation
The New Reading Environment
The Editors
Politics
Society as Checkpoint
Greg Afinogenov
Bad Atrocity Writing
Bruce Robbins
Fiction and Drama
Sick Puppy
Lucinda Rosenfeld
Three Stories
Laurie Stone
Some of the People, All of the Time
David Levine
Essays
Notes on Trap
Jesse McCarthy
Something Fishy About Smolensk
Agata Popeda
Homecomings
Navtej Singh Dhillon
Reviews
Corruptions and Duplicates of Form
A. S. Hamrah
Truth Construction
Anna Altman
You Might Call It Wealth
Andrew Elrod
Ghost World
Rachel Ossip
Letters
George Soros on George Soros
The Editors
Out There

Gun violence and the war on terror, X-philes and juveniles, climate crisis and housing crisis. Tech workers: organize! Nicholas Dames reads spy novels; Andrea Long Chu watches bad TV; Namara Smith reviews Zadie Smith.
The Intellectual Situation
Bringing the War Home
The Editors
Politics
Bad TV
Andrea Long Chu
Code Red
Alex Press
Fire in Jakarta
Adam Bobbette
Fiction and Drama
Superking Son Scores Again
Anthony Veasna So
Two Stories
Helen DeWitt
Translation
You Can't Read
Rose Réjouis
Letter to Freud
Rose Réjouis
Essays
An Account of My Hut
Christina Nichol
Missing Time
Ari M. Brostoff
Two Stops
Natasha Stagg
Day of Memory
Bela Shayevich
Reviews
Sanctuaries of Trust and Caring
A. S. Hamrah
Coming in from the Cold
Nicholas Dames
Both Sides Now
Namara Smith
Letters
Clickbait Minotaur; on liking “On Liking Women”
The Editors
Motherland

Let them eat cultural capital! On trolling and taboo, TERFs and trans desire. A missing brother, an expired visa. Hollywood longs for the Eighties. Design longs for the Seventies. Fiction by Christine Smallwood and Thomas Bolt.
The Intellectual Situation
In the Maze
Dayna Tortorici
Politics
When a Person Goes Missing
Dawn Lundy Martin
Goodbye, Cold War
Aziz Rana
Trolling and Taboo
Nausicaa Renner
Fiction and Drama
The Keeper
Christine Smallwood
Estación Origen MADRID
Thomas Bolt
Essays
On Liking Women
Andrea Long Chu
Two Weeks in the Capital
Nicolás Medina Mora
Morbid Capitalism
Thuy Linh Tu, Nikhil Pal Singh
Object Relations
Claire Jarvis
Reviews
Cut the Kink
A. S. Hamrah
Construct a Perfect Pentagon
Thomas de Monchaux
The Plurality of Worlds
Justin E.H. Smith
Not Every Kid-Bond Matures
Gabriel Winant
Letters
Ghost Writers and Ugly Animals
The Editors
Bottoms Up

Delete Uber, delete Lyft. Fall Fiction Special. Nature writing after nature, extractivism after extraction, literary criticism after criticism. Syrian refugees in Bielefeld. A. S. Hamrah on Twin Peaks and Trump.
The Intellectual Situation
Disrupt the Citizen
The Editors
Politics
False Positives
Mattathias Schwartz
Ecuador After Correa
Thea Riofrancos
Triumph of the Shill
Corey Robin
Essays
Fairouz in Exile
Matthew McNaught
Fiction and Drama
Miriam
Kate Riley
Paranoir
Siddhartha Deb
Kylie Wears Balmain
Sarah Resnick
No. 32
Renee Gladman
Winners
Kaitlin Phillips
Reviews
Heads Without Bodies
A. S. Hamrah
Thinking Like a Mountain
Jedediah Purdy
Tokens of Ruined Method
Marco Roth
Letters
Liberals, Torture, Contrast Ratios
The Editors
Half-Life

The Dems are weak, the left is bleak. Populism: problem or solution? On folklore and frats, Oldchella and the Oscars. Richard Beck on Syria. Fiction by Jenny Zhang and Trevor Shikaze.
The Intellectual Situation
Now Less Than Never
The Editors
Party Foul
The Editors
Politics
The Syria Catastrophe
Richard Beck
Democracy Without the People
Thea Riofrancos
Fiction and Drama
Beast Leave
Trevor Shikaze
Why Were They Throwing Bricks?
Jenny Zhang
Essays
Ghost in the Cloud
Meghan O'Gieblyn
Old Veranda
Vinod Kumar Shukla
League of Men
Elizabeth Schambelan
Oldchella
David Samuels
Reviews
One Word: Authenticity!
A. S. Hamrah
The Bleak Left
Tim Barker
Monstrous, Duplicated, Potent
Alyssa Battistoni
Letters
Milquetoast Dentists, Further Left Than You
Deep End

Trump Rex. The end of Atlantic City. Literally dead in the UFC. Why live? A. S. Hamrah sees forty films at the NYFF, Tama Janowitz flops, strives, and seethes. Fiction by Thomas Bolt, Beatriz Bracher, and Caleb Crain.
The Intellectual Situation
No President
The Editors
Politics
The Obama Speeches
George Blaustein
Decolonizing Obama
Aziz Rana
Fiction and Drama
Inversion of Marcia
Thomas Bolt
I Didn’t Talk
Beatriz Bracher
Ward’s Fool
Caleb Crain
Essays
The Last Last Summer
Joshua Cohen
Old Ship
Kristin Dombek
Don't Be Scared, Homie
Sam Frank
In Tbilisi
Victoria Lomasko
Reviews
All That Counts Is Getting to a Normal World
A. S. Hamrah
The Age of Insolvency
Naomi Fry
Letters
Rhode Warriors, Care Crises
Dirty Work

Canvassing for Bernie, Hillary Rodham Clinton vs. welfare. Must Rhodes Fall? Why Are We In the Middle East? New Russian political poets. Judith Levine remembers Ginsberg v. New York, Sarah Nicole Prickett reads the Stanford letters, Lizzie Feidelson deep cleans apartments.
The Intellectual Situation
Canvassing
Nikil Saval
#worstelectionever
Mark Krotov
Prince Trump
Stephen Squibb
The Woman's Party
Namara Smith
Politics
Rhodocycles
Nakul Krishna
The Stanford Letters
Sarah Nicole Prickett
Fiction and Drama
Where's Your Boyfriend?
Jesse Ruddock
Essays
Kiddie Porn
Judith Levine
The Clean
Lizzie Feidelson
Who Works for the Workers?
Gabriel Winant
New Russian Political Poets
Introduction
Keith Gessen
Brecht, 1933
Kirill Medvedev
Untitled
Galina Rymbu
The Language of Violence
Elena Kostyleva
Four Poems
Roman Osminkin
The "Afghan" Market: Kuzminki
Keti Chukhrov
Reviews
This Quiet Place Today
A. S. Hamrah
Why Are We in the Middle East?
Richard Beck
Modern Love
Tobi Haslett
Letters
Letters
Slow Burn

Feeling the foreign policy Bern. Did Scalia believe in miracles? Shot Bloks and soccer flops, slow movies vs. bad movies. Phil Connors mourns a wilderness, Julie Lamb reads Straight to Hell, plus fiction by Masande Ntshanga and Rebecca Schiff.
The Intellectual Situation
Bernie's World
The Editors
Politics
Miracles and Mummeries
George Blaustein
Fiction and Drama
Longviewers
Rebecca Schiff
Calls
Masande Ntshanga
Poetry
Four Poems
Sophie Robinson
On the Fringe
Uncanny Valley
Anna Wiener
Burn Scars
Philip Connors
Essays
Slow Wars
Moira Weigel
Falling Men
Alejandro Chacoff
Reviews
Straight to Hell
Julie Lamb
Suspicious Minds
Evan Kindley
Letters
Letters
The Editors
New Age

Astrology and robots, BDS and black internationalism. Frank Guan listens to Drake; David Samuels listens to weirdos. On heroin and harm reduction, porn fiction by Tony Tulathimutte, plus a symposium on Ukraine.
The Intellectual Situation
Stars—They're Just Like Us!
The Editors
After Capitalism
The Editors
Politics
Race and the American Creed
Aziz Rana
The Logic of the Beneficiary
Bruce Robbins
Fiction and Drama
Technical Support
Tony Tulathimutte
Essays
Weirdos
David Samuels
H.
Sarah Resnick
Ukraine Supplement
Introduction
Keith Gessen
Travel Diary
Anastasiya Osipova
States of Shock
Tony Wood
Leninopad
Sophie Pinkham
Western Journalists in Ukraine
Keith Gessen
Maidan and After
Nina Potarskaya
Reviews
Perfect Strangers
Namara Smith
Gone Guy
Frank Guan
Theater Diary
Dayna Tortorici
Letters
Letters
The Editors
As If

Syria before the deluge, Brazil after the dictatorship. Moira Donegan reviews Maggie Nelson, and a dolphin writes to Sylvia Plath. Remember: Just because Seymour Hersh is paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
The Intellectual Situation
Evil but Stupid
The Editors
Politics
No Revanchismo
Alejandro Chacoff
Fiction and Drama
Nine Inherited Disorders
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
A Letter to Sylvia Plath
Ceridwen Dovey
Essays
Yarmouk Miniatures
Matthew McNaught
A Hollywood Screenwriter
Kristin Dombek
Annals of Activism
Screw Us and We Multiply
George Blaustein
How to Survive a Footnote
Emily Bass
Reviews
Gay as in Happy
Moira Donegan
Architecture and/or Revolution
Nikil Saval
Letters
Letters
Conviction

Who polices the police? Are millennials real? Philip Connors loses his youth; Dayna Tortorici falls through Ferrante; Brandon Harris slogs through the latest Spike Lee. Fiction by Christine Smallwood.
The Intellectual Situation
Meh!-lennials
The Editors
The People and the Police
On Becoming More Human
Lawrence Jackson
Seeing Through Police
Mark Greif
Hands Up
Cosme Del Rosario-Bell, Elias Rodriques, Doreen St. Felix, Dayna Tortorici
Fiction and Drama
Two Stories
Christine Smallwood
Essays
Confirmation
Philip Connors
Both Ways
Kristin Dombek
We Found Love in a Hopeless Place
Gabriel Winant
Thin Places
Jordan Kisner
Translation
Dispatches From Guerrero
Alejandro Almazán
Reviews
Those Like Us
Dayna Tortorici
Blood Couple
Brandon Harris
Letters
Labor, Letters, Interns; On the Level
Throwback

Don't mourn magazines—organize! Why Syracuse stinks, why everything is speeding up, and why Juiceboxxx is awesssome. Alex Kleeman travels among the Fruitarians, and Nicholas Dames pines for the Seventies. New fiction from Argentina.
The Intellectual Situation
Too Fast, Too Furious
The Editors
Labor & Letters
Introduction
Nikil Saval
Getting Serious
The Editors, Maida Rosenstein
The Committee
Daniel Menaker
Easy Chair
Gemma Sieff
The Mission and the Movement
Maxine Phillips
Brief History of a Small Office
Keith Gessen
Fiction and Drama
The Look
Pola Oloixarac
Essays
Destiny, USA
Steve Featherstone
The Raw and the Rawer
Alexandra Kleeman
The Next Next Level
Leon Neyfakh
Reviews
Seventies Throwback Fiction
Nicholas Dames
Cool Confessions
Maggie Doherty
Skin Her
Namwali Serpell
Letters
Freedom Isn't Antifree; Responding to Privilege
Survival

No care for the caregivers, no luck for the narcos. Should artists get paid? Check your privilege! David Samuels goes to the Grammys. Frank Guan reviews Tao Lin. New fiction from Akhtiorskaya and Zink.
The Intellectual Situation
The Free and the Antifree
The Editors
On Privilege
The Editors
Politics
Dire Straits
Michelle Tea
Fiction and Drama
The Wallcreeper
Nell Zink
Helpless Comprehension
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
Essays
Enforcers
Kent Russell
Justin Timberlake Has a Cold
David Samuels
Color Theory
Jeff Chang
Translation
No Luck Narco
Alejandro Almazán
Reviews
Nobody's Protest Novel
Frank Guan
Quiet Riot
Jamie Martin
Letters
Chat Wars Rage On; Comrades in the Bathroom
Real Estate

Putin vs. Ukraine, Microsoft vs. AOL. Jedediah Purdy regrets, Kristin Dombek solves your problems, Nikil Saval redesigns your office. New fiction by Benjamin Kunkel and two scenes by Nell Zink.
The Intellectual Situation
Ukraine, Putin, and the West
The Editors
The Concert Hall
The Editors
Politics
The Accidental Neoliberal
Jedediah Purdy
Fiction and Drama
The Summer Before The
Benjamin Kunkel
Two Scenes
Nell Zink
Essays
Chat Wars
David Auerbach
Santa Claus Aa Rahe Hai
Srinath Perur
The Help Desk
Kristin Dombek
Endangered Speakers
Ross Perlin
Reviews
New Trends in Office Design
Nikil Saval
Net Neutrality
Andrew Jacobs
Across the Park
Sophie Pinkham
Good News

The NSA would like to connect with you on LinkedIn. Sheila Heti’s diary, clubbing for Christ, and new fiction from Becky Curtis.
The Intellectual Situation
Only Collect
The Editors
Against the Rage Machine
The Editors
Politics
Moscow, August 2013
Keith Gessen
Fiction and Drama
The Magic Thyroid and Energy Boosting Chocolate Truffles
Rebecca Curtis
Essays
The Friedmans
Richard Beck
Jesus Raves
Jordan Kisner
From My Diaries (2006–10) in Alphabetical Order
Sheila Heti
Elephant States
Jacob Shell
Legwork
Barbara Vinken
Reviews
Bed-Stuy
Brandon Harris
Channel Zero
Frank Guan
Subaltern-speak
Bruce Robbins
Letters
Letters
The Editors
The Evil Issue

Fiction from Norman Rush and Rebecca Curtis, drama from Gregory S. Moss. Moretti reads Middlemarch, Gregory surfs, and Kraus asks what’s after art.
The Intellectual Situation
World Lite
The Editors
Politics
The Drone Philosopher
Marco Roth
Fiction and Drama
Fish Rot
Rebecca Curtis
sixsixsix
Gregory S. Moss
Subtle Bodies
Norman Rush
Essays
Kelly Lake Store
Chris Kraus
Style at the Scale of the Sentence
The Stanford Literary Lab
Mavericks
Alice Gregory
Reviews
Slave Capitalism
Gabriel Winant
More Smiles? More Money
Dayna Tortorici
Letters
Letters
The Editors
Double Bind

Against sociology, for cultural revolution! Indians: the next top model minority. Freudenberger reads Munro. Drumming with Colpitts, panda porn with Witt.
The Intellectual Situation
Too Much Sociology
The Editors
White Indians
The Editors
Cultural Revolution
The Editors
Politics
Sandy Hook
Rachel Basch
Translation
The Story of My Purity
Francesco Pacifico
Tarnac, General Store
David Dufresne, Namara Smith
Essays
What Do You Desire?
Emily Witt
The Merce Cunningham Archives
Lizzie Feidelson
Heads Ain’t Ready
John Colpitts
Sadomodernism
Moira Weigel
Reviews
Finale
Nell Freudenberger
Balibarism!
Bruce Robbins
Depiction is Not Endorsement: Film Chronicle 2012
A. S. Hamrah
Letters
Letters
The Editors
Amnesty

Magazines are dead, long live magazines! Kristin Dombek on sex, drugs, and Ryan Gosling. Nikil Saval on China’s Long ’80s. Feminists remember Shulamith Firestone.
The Intellectual Situation
Listen Up, Ladies
The Editors
Let Them Eat Print!
The Editors
Back from the Dead
The Editors
Complacencies of a Beach Towel
The Editors
Politics
Politicopsychopathology
Benjamin Kunkel
Fiction and Drama
Maidenhair
Mikhail Shishkin
Essays
Slickheads
Lawrence Jackson
Letters from Oslo
Julia Grønnevet
The Long Eighties
Nikil Saval
How to Quit
Kristin Dombek
In Memoriam
On Shulamith Firestone
Ti-Grace Atkinson, Rosalyn Baxandall, Phyllis Chesler, Anselma Dell’Olio, The Editors, Tirzah Firestone, Jo Freeman, Carol Hanisch, Andrew Klein, Chris Kraus, Kate Millett, Nina Power, Alix Kates Shulman, Ann Snitow, Elisabeth Subrin, Jennifer Szalai
Reviews
Nothing But Freedom
Jeremy K. Kessler
On Jeanette Winterson
Hannah Tennant-Moore
The Journalist and the Poor
Anand Vaidya
Letters
Letters
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Awkward Age

Burn your degrees! Demand sex class action. Against big babies at home and imbeciles abroad. Yelena Akhtiorskaya panics in a suitcase.
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Death by Degrees
The Editors
Big Babies
The Editors
Stay Home
The Editors
Please RT
The Editors
Politics
Sex Class Action
Dayna Tortorici
Fiction and Drama
Panic in a Suitcase
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
Essays
Captain Midnight, Part Two
Carla Blumenkranz
The Ledger
Lawrence Jackson
Lions in Winter
Charles Petersen
Street Food
Adriana Camarena
Phoenixes
Christopher Glazek
Reviews
The Theory Generation
Nicholas Dames
Berman’s Children
Andrew Jacobs
Cinema of Disillusionment
Moira Weigel
Letters
Letters
The Editors
Machine Politics

The Intellectual Situation is occupied. James Franco prepares, Sotheby’s sells out. Are computers stupid? Christopher Glazek: Raze the prisons. Benjamin Kunkel: Buzz.
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Song for Occupations
The Editors
A Left Populism
The Editors
Song for Occupations (Reprise)
The Editors
Politics
Raise the Crime Rate
Christopher Glazek
Fiction and Drama
Buzz
Benjamin Kunkel
Essays
Dmitry Kuzmin
Kirill Medvedev
Unschooling
Astra Taylor
Quantitative Formalism: An Experiment
Sarah Allison, Ryan Heuser, Matthew Jockers, Franco Moretti, Michael Witmore
The Stupidity of Computers
David Auerbach
Preparation
James Franco, Deenah Vollmer
Reviews
Female Trouble
Elizabeth Gumport
On the Market
Alice Gregory
Letters
Letters
The Editors
Conversion Experience

Against intervention, home in Baltimore, obsessed with Gchat. Mark Greif in Stanley Cavell’s classroom and Kent Russell in juggalo country. Helen DeWitt’s new novel.
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A Solution from Hell
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Chathexis
The Editors
Politics
Christmas in Baltimore 2009
Lawrence Jackson
Fiction and Drama
Lightning Rods
Helen DeWitt
The Mouse
Siddhartha Deb
Essays
American Juggalo
Kent Russell
Captain Midnight
Carla Blumenkranz
Cavell as Educator
Mark Greif
California Love Story
Alexander Borinsky
Poetry
Six Poems
Yitzhak Laor
Reviews
5.4
Richard Beck
Surprising Sweetness
Kristin Dombek
Heroes of Retreat
Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Letters
Letters
The Editors
Dual Power

A brother in Afghanistan, obscure poetry at Cambridge, crisis in the humanities. Are the Necronauts an avant-garde? Boltanski: “making reality impossible.”
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The Information Essay
The Editors
Wall of Sound
The Editors
Politics
Egypt Notebook
Ken Kalfus
Arab Street at Last
Megan K. Stack
The Battle of Wisconsin
Eli S. Evans
Fiction and Drama
Raisa
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
Essays
Argentinidad
Benjamin Kunkel
That Room in Cambridge
Emily Witt
Making Reality Unacceptable
Luc Boltanski
Ryan Went to Afghanistan
Kent Russell
Photo Ops
Gemma Sieff
Reviews
Why Bother?
Nicholas Dames
McC
Amanda Claybaugh
Indecency Doctrine
Andrew Jacobs
Letters
Letters
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Self-Improvement

MFA vs. NYC, the masses vs. the elites, the racists vs. the progressives, the vegans vs. the fetuses, California vs. the world. Franzen’s Freedom or death! Sheila Heti: How Should a Person Be?
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MFA vs. NYC
The Editors
Revolt of the Elites
The Editors
Politics
Caucasian Nation
Marco Roth
Golden State
Nikil Saval
Fiction and Drama
How Should a Person Be?
Sheila Heti
Zone
Mathias Enard
Essays
Gatsby in New Delhi
Siddhartha Deb
The Two Cultures of Life
Kristin Dombek
Four Responses to Freedom
Keith Gessen, Mark Greif, Benjamin Kunkel, Marco Roth
Electric Cars
Dan Albert
Reviews
All in the Family
Richard Beck
Fictional Capital
Elizabeth Gumport
Multitude, Are You There?
Bruce Robbins
Letters
Letters
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Bad Money

Full Employment Now! Octomom, one year later. Internet as social movement, video games as art. Ads nowhere and everywhere. Drug wars in Mexico, parties in Miami, Batuman in Samarkand. Zombies.
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Internet as Social Movement
The Editors
Addled
The Editors
Cave Painting
The Editors
Politics
Full Employment
Benjamin Kunkel
Essays
Miami Party Boom
Emily Witt
Summer in Samarkand, Part II
Elif Batuman
Octomom, One Year Later
Mark Greif
Translation
Under the Cartels
Anonymous
The Red Carpet
Juan Villoro
Fiction and Drama
The Blue Newt Faction
Sam Lipsyte
The Exchange Rate Between Lust and Money
Thomas Leveritt
Reviews
The Zombie Renaissance
Mark McGurl
Why Don't You?
Carlene Bauer
Fake Food Triptych
Molly Young
Letters
Letters
The Editors
Recessional

A red and green Marxism as the way out of the crisis. Fiction from Mexico’s best untranslated novelist. The history of the New Left Review, adventures in online dating, the rise of the neuronovel, on repressive sentimentalism.
The Intellectual Situation
On Your Marx
The Editors
Gentrify, Gentrify
The Editors
Growth Outgrown
The Editors
Politics
On Repressive Sentimentalism
Mark Greif
Conversations with HFM, December 2008–July 2009
The Editors, HFM
Essays
Don’t Say No
Eli S. Evans
So Little to Remember
Philip Connors
Cinema é Luxo
Emily Witt
The Rise of the Neuronovel
Marco Roth
Fiction and Drama
Among Friends
Juan Villoro
A Broken Window
Imraan Coovadia
Reviews
New Left Review, 1962–Present
Nikil Saval
R We Going 2 Dai Alone?
Katherine Sharpe
Forget Bourdieu
Nicholas Dames
Letters
Letters
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Correction

Obama as American Gorbachev; Roberto Bolaño canonized. Interviews with David Harvey and an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager. Molly Young takes adderall, Mark Greif eats locally, A. S. Hamrah sees every Iraq war movie.
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Corrections
The Editors
Obama: American Gorbachev
The Editors
The People of the Magazine
The Editors
On Bolaño
The Editors
Politics
Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager (I)
Keith Gessen, HFM
Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager (II)
Keith Gessen, HFM
David Harvey
The Editors, David Harvey
Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager (III)
Keith Gessen, HFM
Essays
Jessica Biel's Hand
A. S. Hamrah
On Food
Mark Greif
Drawn and Quartered on the Internet
Benjamin Kunkel
Summer in Samarkand
Elif Batuman
Confessions of a DJ
Jace Clayton
Fiction and Drama
Claus Peymann Buys Himself a Pair of Pants and Joins Me for Lunch
Thomas Bernhard
The Family Friend
Ceridwen Dovey
Poetry
Three Poems
Frederick Seidel
Reviews
Game Theory
Wesley Yang
Swedish Detectives
Britt Peterson
Kickstart My Heart
Molly Young
Mainstream

The “hype cycle” as the emotional life of capitalism, the death and life of book reviewing. Is global warming a “politics of fear”? Cho Seung-Hui. Gawker. Caleb Crain’s novella, Helen DeWitt’s new novel.
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The Hype Cycle
The Editors
The Spirit of Revival
The Editors
What Not to Read, and How!
The Editors
Book Review Nation
The Editors
Politics
Lower the Voting Age!
Marco Roth
Forum: War on Global Warming/War on Terror
Alex Gourevitch, Mark Greif, Chad Harbach, Benjamin Kunkel
Essays
The Face of Seung-Hui Cho
Wesley Yang
Birth of the Office
Nikil Saval
Fiction and Drama
Your Name Here
Helen DeWitt, Ilya Gridneff
Sweet Grafton
Caleb Crain
Translation
Literature Will Be Tested (Poems)
Kirill Medvedev
Reviews
Who Killed the People's Bookstore?
Alexandra Heifetz
Orhan Pamuk and the Turks
Gloria Fisk
Gawker: 2002–2007
Carla Blumenkranz
The End
Chad Harbach
Decivilizing Process

Technological excess, from email to porn to blogs. Basharat Peer sees torture in Kashmir, Eli S. Evans watches television in Los Angeles. A fable by Benjamin Kunkel, fiction about nuclear proliferation, a report on flying cars.
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Against Email
The Editors
Whatever Minutes
The Editors
The Blog Reflex
The Editors
The Porn Machine
The Editors
The Decivilizing Process
The Editors
Politics
My Predicament: A Fable
Benjamin Kunkel
Notes from Cape Town
Gemma Sieff
Essays
Papa-2
Basharat Peer
Pornutopia
Nancy Bauer
The Television Diaries
Eli S. Evans
Anaesthetic Ideology
Mark Greif
Torture and the Known Unknowns
Keith Gessen
The Argonaut Folly
Joshua Glenn
Fiction and Drama
Dr. Atomic
Imraan Coovadia
The Near-Son
Rebecca Curtis
Reviews
Woman, the New Social Problem
Meghan Falvey
Flying Cars: An Update
Dan Albert
Fiction Chronicle
Carla Blumenkranz
Letters
Letters
The Editors
Reconstruction

Chad Harbach on global warming. A symposium on “American Writing Today.” Fiction by Rebecca Schiff and John Haskell. Phil Connors on life at the Wall Street Journal. Mark Greif‘s “Afternoon of the Sex Children.”
The Intellectual Situation
On Global Warming
Chad Harbach
Politics
Note from La Paz
Daniel Alarcón
First, Do No Harm
Andrew Ellner
The Trouble with Being German
Johannes Türk
Gut-Level Legislation, or, Redistribution
Mark Greif
Essays
My Life and Times in American Journalism
Philip Connors
Short Story & Novel
Elif Batuman
Poetry
Stephen Burt
Academic Criticism
Caleb Crain
American Writing Abroad
Rodrigo Fresán
Money
Keith Gessen
Memoir & Criticism
Vivian Gornick
Publishing
Gerald Howard
Novel
Benjamin Kunkel
Reader as Hero
Marco Roth
Why Repeat These Sad Things?
Meline Toumani
Afternoon of the Sex Children
Mark Greif
Fiction and Drama
The Mystery Guest
Grégoire Bouillier
Two Stories
John Haskell
Melodramatic Installations
Ilya Kliger
Three Stories
Rebecca Schiff
The Joy of Edge Tools
Misha Hoekstra
Reviews
Attack of the Clones
Marco Roth
Death Sentences
J.D. Daniels
Letters
Letters
The Editors
Reality Principle

The ’90s bubble. On “Dating.” The con of the “reading crisis.” James Wood on the task of the critic, Walter Benn Michaels on neoliberalism and the novel, Mark Greif on reality TV and Radiohead, and Elif Batuman on Franco Moretti.
The Intellectual Situation
A Boom Deferred
The Editors
Dating
The Editors
In the Stocks
The Editors
The Reading Crisis
The Editors
Politics
On Torture and Parenting
Marco Roth
More Blood, Less Oil
Michael T. Klare
The Chatroom Society
François Cusset
Essays
Radiohead, or the Philosophy of Pop
Mark Greif
A Violent Season
Emily Votruba
First Love
Pankaj Mishra
The Neoliberal Imagination
Walter Benn Michaels
John Thomas and Lady Jane
J.D. Daniels
What Independent Film?
Andrew Bujalski
A Reply to the Editors
James Wood
Fiction and Drama
Two Fairy Tales
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Or Things I Did Not Do or Say
Benjamin Kunkel
Reviews
Adventures of a Man of Science
Elif Batuman
Homo Freakonomicus
Meghan Falvey
Salman the Clown
Siddhartha Deb
The Reality of Reality Television
Mark Greif
Letters
Letters
The Editors
Happiness

The aftermath of Bush’s second election. Theory after the fall. Literary readings: cancel them. “Is J. M. Coetzee afraid of life?” Elif Batuman brings Isaac Babel‘s last living relatives to California. George Scialabba massacres Christopher Hitchens.
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Happiness: A History
The Editors
Theory: Death Is Not the End
The Editors
Literary Readings: Cancel Them
The Editors
The Novel: The Way Out Is In
The Editors
Foreign Report: French Sex Novel
The Editors
Politics
Among the Believers
Pankaj Mishra
Shhh . . . Swing Voters Are Listening
Benjamin Kunkel
Essays
Babel in California
Elif Batuman
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Daniel Smith
Last Cigarettes
Marco Roth
Trends in Network Television Comedy
Peter Frankel
The Concept of Experience
Mark Greif
Diana Abbott: A Lesson
Benjamin Kunkel
At the 2003 International Security Conference
Alexander Kluge
Fiction and Drama
The Reaper
Rachel Sherman
The Vice President’s Daughter
Keith Gessen
Reviews
Farewell, Hitch
George Scialabba
Seattle to Baghdad
Kim Phillips-Fein
When He Was Good
Elaine Blair
Art Chronicle: Graphic Novels
Dushko Petrovich
Apocalypse Deferred
Mark Greif
Letters
Letters
The Editors
Negation

“It is time to say what you mean.” Raids on the cultural norm. Against Exercise. Fiction by Sam Lipsyte and Benjamin Kunkel. Keith Gessen on the education of Gary Baum.
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Designated Haters
The Editors
A Regressive Avant-Garde
The Editors
PoMo NeoCons
The Editors
Human, Not Too Human
The Editors
Politics
Palestine, the 51st State
Mark Greif, Marco Roth
W: Our President
Mark Greif
A Bunch of Nobodies
Mark Greif
Essays
Eggers, Teen Idol
Keith Gessen
Against Exercise
Mark Greif
Why Literature Matters When It's Somewhere Else
Marco Roth
Art Chronicle; or, The Icon Emigrating
Dushko Petrovich
Paranoiastan
Masha Gessen
Mogadishu, Baghdad, Troy; or, Heroes Without War
Mark Greif
The Black Iron Prison
Joshua Glenn
Fiction and Drama
Horse Mountain
Benjamin Kunkel
Fontana
Sam Lipsyte
Translation
The Norm
Vladimir Sorokin
Reviews
Age of Chivalry Not Over, French Doctor Says.
Marco Roth
David Foster Wallace!
Chad Harbach
File It Under Secular Neglect
Patrick Giles
Letters
Editorial Statement
The Editors
Endnotes
Keith Gessen