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The Solidarity of the Hopeful

Von Zadie Smith, Tash Aw, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Thomas Banchoff, Pankaj Mishra

Living on the Spanish island of Mallorca in 1936, the French writer Georges Bernanos found himself engulfed by the civil war then raging across Spain.

Making Up an Escape

Von Alex Ransom

Since her career began in the mid-1990s, Kelly Reichardt has directed nine feature films, all modest in scope and budget and often willfully disinterested in the norms and conventions of mainstream American filmmaking.

‘Have You Met Z?’

Von Dan Chiasson

It was almost weird to walk around New York City and not run into him. “Z was in just yesterday,” the barista at Little Flower in Astoria told me, pointing to a full-sized Zohran Mamdani cut-out stationed near the bathrooms.

Worse than Nothing

Von Duncan Hosie, Lesly Ramirez Melchor

“No one should be surprised that the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the indiscriminate targeting of Latinos in Los Angeles precipitated the zip-tying, beating, and lengthy detention of black people in Chicago.