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The Jewish Authenticity Trap
The Holocaust has long loomed large in the American imagination, but in recent years it has come to seem ubiquitous, with Holocaust-related symbols and slogans infiltrating...
Total Recall
King Rao, the billionaire tech founder at the center of Vauhini Vara’s debut novel, The Immortal King Rao, is neither a king nor, strictly speaking, immortal....
Village People
It is not uncommon for a novel to try to convince its readers that they should care. It is far less common for a novel to...
Models for Being
When they were undergraduates at Berkeley in the 1990s, Hua Hsu’s friend Ken was murdered, randomly and wantonly, in a carjacking. That is the precipitating cause...
Pakistan Submerged
Some two thousand years ago, in 325 BC, after a string of conquests across the Indus plains, the forces of Alexander of Macedon mutinied on the...
Originalism’s Charade
The Supreme Court’s decision in June 2022 to overrule Roe v. Wade and erase the constitutional right to abortion was the culmination of a half-century-long campaign...
Clay Genius
In my cabinet I have a cream-colored soup plate, purchased in the early 1990s at an antique store in Greenwich Village. For me it was rather...
Empty Spaces
There are empty spaces we makeand empty spaces we grow accustomed to, as though they were alwaysthere—a gold mine you can descend an hour into by...
A Vivisectional Style
John Donne was a contemporary of Shakespeare. This is strangely difficult to remember, for they had contrary relationships to poetic traditions and trends. Like other English...
