Plus, how cancel culture panics ate the world, and more culture reporting from TNR
Luca Guadagnino makes William S. Burroughs’s novella a love story that is sordid, pathetic, affecting, and true. |
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Join us on Thursday, December 5, at 4 p.m. EST, for a conversation with The New Republic’s senior editor Alex Shephard, literary editor Laura Marsh, and contributing editor Osita Nwanevu, as well as n+1’s publisher, Mark Krotov, about the state of culture during Trump’s first term and what the next four years will hold for books and the arts in his second. |
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A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents. |
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"Rejection" is a panorama of deviance, degradation, and isolation. |
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Susie Orbach’s 1978 book is a fascinating snapshot of diet and physical culture in a very different era. |
By Natalia Mehlman Petrzela |
The new prequel on HBO plays like a watered-down "Game of Thrones." |
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From revived classics to the latest must-read, take a peek into The New Republic’s bookstore and pick up the next book you can’t put down. |
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