A roundup of TNR’s culture reporting
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Alex Garland’s film is a fascinatingly empty meditation on journalism and our political divides. |
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Jason De León’s ambitious ethnography paints human smugglers not as inhuman villains but as individuals navigating an inhuman system. |
What Benedict Anderson’s classic account of nationalism’s origins misses about today’s world. |
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Two new books show how a frayed social safety net is leaving more and more people alone and vulnerable. |
Neighborhoods that once promised prosperity now offer crumbling infrastructure, aged housing stock, and social animus. |
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