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In Defense of the Moderate
In an era that prizes passion, “reasonableness” gets caricatured as political cowardice or bloodless neutrality. A new book says it’s exactly what we need. Source link
The Novelist Reimagining the Japanese American Internment
The United States began allowing Japanese people to leave the camps before the conclusion of the Second World War. In December of 1944, the Supreme Court had ruled that...
How the Creator of “Beef” Graduated from Petty Feuds to Class Warfare
You changed your name professionally in 2018 or 2019. What led to that decision, and why did you put your last name first?It actually might have been earlier, because...
“Amrum” Offers a Child’s-Eye View of Fascism in Retreat
In Fatih Akin’s coming-of-age drama, a twelve-year-old German islander witnesses the end of the Second World War from a perilous, momentous remove. Source link
“Euphoria” Has Become a Thrilling, Disturbing Horror Show
In between the high drama and extreme situations that these often-numbed-out kids found their way into—rough sex, vicious girl fights, armed drug deals, operatically hellish withdrawals—there were interludes of...
Emmet Gowin’s American Family
Yet there’s very little drama in Gowin’s pictures, and any plot is sketchy or buried. The elders here are generally all of a piece—stoic, patient, dressed as simply and...
Justin Bieber Offers a Reflective Ode to Bieber Fever
On the first Saturday of Coachella, Justin Bieber started his concert by looking down at a camera on the floor of the stage. If you were watching the show...
The Pain and Play of Divorce on Kids’ TV
Why, Bandit’s daughter Bluey asks him during a bathroom break at the movie theatre, is Chunky being told to “just be yourself”? What does that mean?“Look,” Bandit says cheerfully,...
The Art of the Fictional Pop Song
Then again, an especially good fictional song can come to feel more real than its story of origin. Lustra’s pop-punk cuckoldry anthem “Scotty Doesn’t Know” has detached from the...
A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.Omer Bartov is an...
