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Hari Kunzru’s Reckoning With the Far Right

His novel “Red Pill” portrays a liberal’s crisis at the approach of the Trump era.

By Rumaan Alam

“One Billion Americans” is a loosely-informed mishmash of policy, held together by anxieties about American power.
By Jacob Bacharach

The follow-up to the bestselling “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” is a fraction of its length, but has far more heft.
By Josephine Livingstone

The radical anthropologist, who died this week, was that rare figure: a scholar who was also an activist.
By Matthew Zeitlin

In history and pop culture, a wave of revisionism has subtly cleaned up the agency’s image.
By Greg Barnhisel

Two new books by Jason Diamond and Eula Biss expose the fraught moral dilemmas of living in the ’burbs.
By Josephine Livingstone

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