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Photo illustration of Vigdis Hjorth in a collage layered with excerpts from A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Vigdis Hjorth Keeps Going Back

Her novel Repetition is an attempt to live with the weight of the past.

California Governor Gavin Newsom at a rally in Houston, Texas in November 2025

Gavin Newsom’s Struggle for Everyman Cred

Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery tries to recast a life of privilege in often baffling ways.

Stephanie Gorton

The Little Magazine That Defied American Censorship

An illustration of Margaret Caroline Anderson the founder of The Little Review.

Stephanie Gorton

The Little Magazine That Defied American Censorship

Books & the Arts

A photograph of author Tareq Baconi taken in London, January 14, 2026.

Tareq Baconi’s Search for Liberation

Fire in Every Direction recounts the uneasy coming of age of a queer scholar in the Palestinian diaspora.

An illustration of couch surfing doom scrolling people on islands with one swimming towards a boat with a disco ball with a crowd of people will blue t shirts and the words VOTE FOR visible on the side of the boat

Daniel Schlozman

The Left Has a Hyperpolitics Problem

While the left is often able to excite large numbers to protest, it fails to harness that energy to build lasting political power.