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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.

Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie in Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights Is Fan Fiction

The new movie smooths out the novel’s difficulties and plays fast and loose with its romantic elements.

Scott Bradfield

Denis Johnson’s Desperate, Poetic Horrors

Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier in the 2025 adaptation of “Train Dreams” on Netflix

Scott Bradfield

Denis Johnson’s Desperate, Poetic Horrors

Books & the Arts

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.

Illustration of a smartphone displaying Chinese characters and a protest scene, partially blacked out to symbolize censorship in China and Hong Kong.

Lessons from China’s Delicate Dance of Censorship and Expression

The parallels between state censorship in China and the US are increasingly striking.