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How the GOP Became the Party of Resentment
Have historians of the conservative movement focused too much on its intellectuals?
By Patrick Iber
The Pioneering Morality of Raven Leilani’s
Luster
The much-celebrated debut novel is representative of a younger generation’s approach to age-old dilemmas.
By Josephine Livingstone
The Helpless Outrage of the Anti-Trump Book
The Trump era has birthed a distinct new genre of political writing: irate, forgettable, and strangely complacent.
By Colin Dickey
The Inevitability of Defending Henry Kissinger
Barry Gewen’s biography is an exercise in downplaying the critics and justifying the abuse of power.
By Jim Sleeper
How to Write About Climate Change
Two books offer different approaches to the changing relationship between humans and nature.
By Josephine Livingstone
The Brutal World of
Waiting for the Barbarians
Johnny Depp and Mark Rylance play the enforcers of empire in the film based on J.M. Coetzee’s novel.
By Lidija Haas
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