Join The New Republic for a livestream of our Salon book series, featuring author Pankaj Mishra and TNR literary editor Laura Marsh, as they talk about Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire, Mishra’s new essay collection. | Wednesday, October 7, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. |
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A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West, by one of the most important public intellectuals of our time.
Decades of violence and chaos have produced a political and intellectual hysteria ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about an Islamic threat to Western civilization that has affected even the most liberal of American and British writers.
In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines this hysteria and its fantasists, taking on its arguments and the atmosphere in which it has festered and become influential. In essays that grapple with colonialism, human rights, and the doubling down of liberalism against a background of faltering economies and weakening Anglo-American hegemony, Mishra confronts writers from Jordan Peterson to Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Featuring a newly written introduction, these essays provide a vantage point from which to look seriously at the current crisis.
You can purchase Mishra’s novel here. |
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Join The New Republic for a livestream of Rumaan Alam and TNR literary editor Laura Marsh, as they talk about Leave the World Behind, Alam’s new novel. | Thursday, October 8, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. |
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A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.
Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe.
Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?
Suspenseful and provocative, Rumaan Alam’s third novel is keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis.
You can purchase Alam’s novel here. |
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| TNR Live: The End of University
Tuesday, October 6, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m |
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Join Symphony Space for “Virtual Selected Shorts”: Crazy Rich Asians’ Kevin Kwan | Thursday, October 1, starting at 7:30 p.m. |
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Following the publication of his latest sensation, Sex and Vanity, bestselling author Kevin Kwan curates and hosts an evening of short fiction writers who have influenced and inspired his work, including Edith Wharton, Doretta Lau, and Virginia Woolf. With performances by Melora Hardin (The Bold Type), Bebe Neuwirth (Blue Bloods), Annie Q. (The Leftovers), and Michael Urie (Ugly Betty, Younger).
Please use code FRIEND at checkout. With this invitation, you’re allowed one (1) $5 ticket per person. |
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