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Gabriel Winslow-Yost on Andor and the attempt to depict totalitarian state violence through corporate storytelling https...
07/24/2025

Gabriel Winslow-Yost on Andor and the attempt to depict totalitarian state violence through corporate storytelling https://go.nybooks.com/4m4K1hw

In 1982 the great French crime novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette stopped publishing fiction. In almost a dozen novels over the previous decade, he had

“As more Americans find themselves excluded from the dream of property ownership, the tenant movement must prompt renter...
07/24/2025

“As more Americans find themselves excluded from the dream of property ownership, the tenant movement must prompt renters to fight for dignity and security in tenancy rather than seeing themselves as temporarily embarrassed homeowners.” —Charlie Dulik

More than a third of the US population rent their homes. The number of tenants in the country is growing fast—nearly triple the rate of homeowner growth

“The Modi government seems convinced that it can use military might to keep Kashmir under control,” writes Tariq Mir. ”B...
07/24/2025

“The Modi government seems convinced that it can use military might to keep Kashmir under control,” writes Tariq Mir. ”But it is precisely that strategy which has made [the region] a powder keg.”

On a recent spring afternoon I took one of my usual weekday walks along the high, grassy banks of the Jhelum River, near my home in Srinagar, the summer

“At first we convinced ourselves that the chance for me to leave was some kind of joke. Now the joke was over. I took my...
07/23/2025

“At first we convinced ourselves that the chance for me to leave was some kind of joke. Now the joke was over. I took my last step toward the bus that would carry me to another side of the world.” —Doha Kahlout on leaving Gaza

I had been in Paris for more than a week when Gaza surfaced again, like a scar the body has come to accept. On the train to Argenteuil I sat facing the

On Ukraine’s public petition website, “virtually all the submissions are now pleas for fallen loved ones to be granted p...
07/23/2025

On Ukraine’s public petition website, “virtually all the submissions are now pleas for fallen loved ones to be granted posthumous military honors…. To scroll through the list is to begin to take in the volume and nature of the loss.” —Linda Kinstler

In mid-February, just ahead of Volodymyr Zelensky’s ill-fated visit to the White House, a thirty-year-old engineer from Kharkiv named Vladyslav Voronin

“Solar deployment may slow down in Trump’s America, but in the rest of the world it is spreading like wildfire,” Jonatha...
07/23/2025

“Solar deployment may slow down in Trump’s America, but in the rest of the world it is spreading like wildfire,” Jonathan Mingle writes. “The reason is straightforward: solar and batteries are simply getting too cheap.”

For anyone concerned that the world is hurtling toward three degrees of warming by the end of the century—a future described as “hellish” by the UN

“John Tottenham’s Service both refuses to romanticize the condition of being down and out and finds in it something much...
07/23/2025

“John Tottenham’s Service both refuses to romanticize the condition of being down and out and finds in it something much more admirable than the jaunty pretensions of LA’s grifters, hacks, and social climbers.” —Anahid Nersessian

The hypocrisies of our social contract are exposed in John Tottenham’s hilarious debut novel about a wage worker in a bookstore.

Tara Raghuveer on how New York City’s renters organized for Zohran
07/22/2025

Tara Raghuveer on how New York City’s renters organized for Zohran

The night before the New York City municipal primary, the air was sticky with heat and Ferdousi Begum was too tense to sleep. For the past six months,

Charlie Dulik on the past and future of tenant organizing
07/22/2025

Charlie Dulik on the past and future of tenant organizing

More than a third of the US population rent their homes. The number of tenants in the country is growing fast—nearly triple the rate of homeowner growth

Xi Jinping’s father had been purged for “help[ing] the daughter of an old friend who was writing a sensitive novel,” Ian...
07/22/2025

Xi Jinping’s father had been purged for “help[ing] the daughter of an old friend who was writing a sensitive novel,” Ian Johnson writes. “Perhaps his son [Xi Jinping] has decided that these were mistakes and to pursue instead much more focused and ruthless policies.”

New biographies of Xi Zhongxun and Hu Yaobang provide insights into the opaque culture of the Chinese Communist Party and the political ascent of Xi's son, Xi Jinping.

Jonathan Mingle on how Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill could fuel blackouts across America
07/22/2025

Jonathan Mingle on how Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill could fuel blackouts across America

For anyone concerned that the world is hurtling toward three degrees of warming by the end of the century—a future described as “hellish” by the UN

“Imams in the US,” writes Aida Alami, “[need] to guide their congregants through civic life in a country whose dominant ...
07/22/2025

“Imams in the US,” writes Aida Alami, “[need] to guide their congregants through civic life in a country whose dominant culture is secularizing, pluralistic, and systematically Islamophobic.”

For years I have been working on a documentary film about young Muslims in France, centered on the 2017 trial that convicted a police officer of killing a

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