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

Stephanie Gorton

The Little Magazine That Defied American Censorship

Margaret Anderson’s Little Review fought to bring the great works of modernist literature to the United States.

The Revolutionary Crappiness of Darren Aronofsky’s On This Day … 1776

The generative AI series is tailored to a viewer with radically lowered expectations.

Sulmaan Wasif Khan

How the End of the Cold War Saved the Siberian Tiger

Sulmaan Wasif Khan

How the End of the Cold War Saved the Siberian Tiger

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.