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great read on the enigmatic films of Hong Sangsoo, many of which I watched in rapid, barely comprehending succession earlier this year www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“to see and speak to working people in both the bonds of universality and with the dignity of specificity.”

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"Rhetorically, this was among the less-remarked gifts of this campaign: to see and speak to working people in both the bonds of universality and with the dignity of specificity." A great (and even euphoric) essay on Mamdani

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An injustice to the ruling class in New York is a threat to the ruling class everywhere. “What happens in NYC,” a worried Larry Summers tweeted from Massachusetts last week, “is consequential for all of us.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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The antisemitism panic has come so unmoored from empirical reality that any contact with that reality is a bracing risk. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“The campaign’s climax, for me, came with Zohran’s Whitmanic walk down the length of Manhattan on the Friday night before Election Day.” @cgvanderburg.bsky.social on Mamdani’s New York: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Fantastic reported essay about what a public acclimated into fascism looks like on the ground. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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The liberal international order is dead. My latest: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“From Trump all the way down to the masked ICE thugs wending their way across farmlands, repair shops, and Home Depot parking lots, our enemies are convinced that basic humanist demands represent a national security threat.”

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“It seems implausible, entire blocks voting for this weirdo . . . It occurs to me that I’ve been thinking of my support for Sanders as a private obsession, a strange fascination unconnected to the preferences and actions of most people.” From 2016: @nikilsaval.bsky.social canvasses for Bernie.

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”Trump’s reliance on ICE underscores a transformation toward a domestic politics of domination that mirrors his administration’s lawlessness abroad.”

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“Trump’s decision to unilaterally strike Iran sends a clear signal to the rest of the world: multilateralism is dead, force rules above all, and any state without the martial capacity to inflict devastating pain must choose between utter subservience to the US or risk annihilation.”

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“Increasingly, sovereignty appears to be a privilege limited by the caprices of the world hegemon.” New online: @shaabiranks.bsky.social on the Iran attack and the politics of domination abroad and at home.

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“It took me years of watching Hong’s films, trying to piece together their puzzles, to acknowledge an embarrassingly simple truth: the response I felt was one of identification. I felt the characters’ pains as if they were my own, because they were.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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The thing I haven't seen anyone highlight in retweets of this amazing piece is instagram's specific role over the last ~decade , as a leading contributor to the "reality literacy" disease we now all recognize , of which boredom/fomo/consumer jealousy are leading symptoms

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I wrote about accompanying a friend to immigration court, now readable online at @nplusonemag.com

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“You don’t have to like arthouse films to like his movies, because you already know how to watch them.” New online: Andrew Eckholm on Hong Sangsoo. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Maybe the best thing I've read all year. Unbearably bleak, darkly, bitterly funny and insightful on the gaudy banality of US border violence. Also makes clear this is nothing new - this was a political moment forged by long the phase of post 9/11 militarisation. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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This is a fascinating and horrifying read. Very much has its fingers on the pulse of the rotting heart of the United Statesean hellscape.

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I wrote about Brian for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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This is a wild and essential read @nplusonemag.com

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“Brian’s genius was bound up in his fixation on these paradoxes: the absence that haunts every presence; the love that’s most vital just before it drains away; pain and beauty too enmeshed to be pulled apart.” New: @charoshane.bsky.social on Brian Wilson. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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The speed and thoroughness of Trump’s anti-transgender initiatives, bearing on virtually every aspect of transgender people’s lives, has been both relentless and heartbreaking. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Happy Publication Day, @lclaberge.bsky.social! 💐

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Back at the ICE booth, a lone protester was at last present, asking a simple question. At the deportation officer recruiting table, he asked, “Have you read Eichmann in Jerusalem?” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“Fragrances are crucial to Shimizu’s work: moving swiftly through space and barreling through social distinctions, smells insinuate themselves in even more determined ways than the sounds of raucous neighbors or machinery.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“The carefreeness of his films flourished not despite but because of a quietly steadfast formal rigor.” Alex Kong on Hiroshi Shimizu: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Wonderful piece bearing witness to the absurd horrors of our time by www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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God, this is so good. Shattering. Please read it. “The US is filled with “pretty nice guys” who are ready to inflict, who have already inflicted, senseless and life-shattering violence on innocent, impoverished people.“

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“Do you know what the Nazis said?” he asked. “They said they were just following orders. How do you think of your own work in this context?”

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“The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“The motivating force behind American career fascism would appear to be wanderlust.” New: Yanis Varoufuckice reports from an ICE job fair. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Exquisite and harrowing account of the inside of the immigration courtrooms where the government is dismissing people’s cases so ICE can abduct them www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Immigrants are the scapegoats whom Trump has chosen for roundups, but the business of rounding up is itself an all-purpose tool in the assault on law. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/pol...

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"They were all men and they stuck out because they displayed an exceeding level of stillness and homogeneity in a room with a flow of people from all over the world. . . ." @liv-veazey.bsky.social for @nplusonemag.com: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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„I wasn’t allowed to speak or offer legal advice to M in the courtroom, so without looking down for too long, I wrote in my notebook: Ils vont essayer de terminer ton case—tu vas dire NON. Tu as besoin de temps pour trouver un avocat.“ www.nplusonemag.com/...

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A stunner in the newest @nplusonemag.com. "The book, whatever it is, would have to be more than good. It would have to answer the question of what I was doing, what I was building, in lieu of a traditional family in middle age. It has to make up for my fatigue and bristly hair and age spots."

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ICE agents “displayed an exceeding level of stillness and homogeneity in a room with a flow of people from all over the world, who are always in motion, and who mostly looked different from one another.” New: @liv-veazey.bsky.social writes from immigration court. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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“I am not unfamiliar with the reasons it is considered unhealthy to love people who can’t get through a day without getting shitfaced.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-15/ess...

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colin vandenburg in the latest @nplusonemag.com... 🔥🔥🔥 www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...

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earlier this year, i learned more people submit to literary magazines than actual subscribers!! (this may well be an apocryphal stat but honestly seems all too plausible) anyway i love N+1 and this essay had me wheeze laughing for your friday www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/ess...

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"The darkest prospect for literary studies is not its wholesale dissolution, but its residual subsidy as a loss leader for a few elite schools that can afford it." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...

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A MUST READ from @nplusonemag.com: "The MAGA executive has fired more than 120,000 federal employees so far, and is attempting to intimidate and demoralize millions more. Elimination is one path to demoralization...The other is degeneration, the slow rot of institutions from the inside" no paywall

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Beneath this impasse lies a still deeper dilemma: what the fuck is all this even about? www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...

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great essay. ‘Critical Forms’ by Ross Wilson is maybe a more digestible book than the Kramnick but i’d recommend both to anyone interested in the crisis of criticism

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Necessary reading for anyone who has ever taken a graduate literature class. It continually clears the high bar its perfect title sets.

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loving this from @cgvanderburg.bsky.social — really glad to see Bruce Robbins added into this latest theatre of the method wars

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omg do not give them ideas!!!!

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The latest crisis in literary studies feels different: more spiteful and less fertile, more terminally gloomy, a scene of death throes rather than birth pangs. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...

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