February 10, 2017

Of all the firsts in the 2017 inauguration, perhaps one of the more surprising ones was the use of the word “infrastructure.” Apparently, prior to Trump the term had never… Read more »

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library opens thanks to years of activism — Carl Bromley
Watch our authors in conversation at the Penguin Random House Spring Book Festival — Amelia Stymacks
Photos and video from India by Suchitra Vijayan, author of Midnight's Borders — Amelia Stymacks
Exclusive photos of Myanmar from author Daniel Combs — Amelia Stymacks

Without warning, Egyptian officials shutter Cairo center for torture victims

Kait Howard

After a year of harassment by the Egyptian government, Cairo’s Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence was shut down by authorities yesterday. The closure—executed by fifteen plainclothes… Read more »

Amazon’s bestseller list is a futile attempt to impose order on the howling void of everyday life in America

Simon Reichley

One of the splashier pieces of book-news-during-the-Apocalypse has (alongside the ongoing S&S trainwreck) been the cultural ascendancy of George Orwell’s 1984, which we covered at length a few weeks ago.… Read more »

Three down, 205 to go…

Melville House

Another week, everyone. There’s cause for gladness. For now, the federal judiciary is holding up, and the constitutional principles most directly under assault from the Turnip Administration are being defended.… Read more »

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Fascism and infrastructure

Ingrid Burrington