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Has Populism Won? Must Democratic Politics, on Both Left and Right, Be Populist Now?

The Chinese Question: Gold Rushes, Migration, and the Global Politics and Economics of Race

Read These 10 Books That Actually Scared Us... If You Dare

Darryl Pinckney on Working for the New York Review of Books and Navigating New York City’s Literary Scene as a Young Black Writer

“Before the Words Became Pages, We Were Eating.” Why Kay Ulanday Barrett’s Best Poems Are About Food

Emily Flitter on What She Learned From a Source’s Silence

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Why, If We Want to Create a More Human World, the Future Must Be Analog

On Messi, Ronaldo, and the Radical Remaking of the World’s Game Over the Last 20 Years

“A Lot of People Can’t Stomach It.” Jonathan Escoffery on the Paradox of Writing About Poverty

How My Novel Disappeared—And Why it Came Back

Neither Heroines Nor Villains: The Brave-Hearted Women Who Settled the American West

Can Digital Technology Can Be Harnessed to Realize Equality, Inclusion, and a Brighter Future?

A History of the Sassoons—One of the World’s Great Global Merchant Families

Merve Emre: Why Going Viral on Twitter Makes You Non-Human in the Public Sphere

In Service of the Avant Garde: On the Unlikely Success
of Siglio Press

Lee Child and Andrew Child on Discipline, Dread, and Writing Late at Night

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