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“Is s*x about expressing our earnest and fundamental nature, or ought s*x allow us to be, to feel, like someone different?” In a new installment of Higher Gossip, Lillian Fishman asks: What kind of performance is s*x?
You’re right: much of s*x does feel like theater. But what kind of theater is it?
“Is liberalism alone sufficient to muster liberal virtue? Is appealing to the enlightened self-interest of liberals enough to cure the ills of liberaldom?” Galen Watts reviews “Liberalism as a Way of Life.”
According to Alexandre Lefebvre, professor of politics and philosophy at the University of Sydney and author of the new book Liberalism as a Way of […]
A Point roundtable on Joe Biden's withdrawal from the race—and human finitude. Link in bio.
On the anniversary of his death, Alisha Dietzman on Kundera's influence. Link in bio.
When it comes to s*x, are you a hobbyist or a mystic? New on Higher Gossip column from . Link in bio.
From issue 32's men symposium, Shaan Sachdev on bottoming and loving men. (Link in bio.) Art credit: .carino.art
From our new "What Are Men For Symposium?," Rowan Wilson on Niles Crane, male paragons and gender failure. Link in bio!
Come to our party in New York on June 12th to celebrate the launch of issue 32 and “What Are Children For?” by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman. Details here:
Join us on June 12th in New York City for a party celebrating the release of issue 32 (“What Are Men For?”) and the book […]
From our new issue: Brandon Kreitler on Jorie Graham. Link in bio. (Art by ).
New on Higher Gossip, responds to a question fro me a reader on whether true love requires "deep struggle" and "insane, vertiginous experiences." Might it be the case that the ultimate test of compatibility isn't so much about s*x or work or long-term goals but how much subjection can we tolerate in our relationships? Read Lillian's advice in the bio link.
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New on Forms of Life, a dispatch from the Harvard encampment by Rebecca Cadenhead. (Link in bio.)
A new Forms of Life dispatch from Oliver Eagan, on the campus protests at Pomona College, the first West Coast school to order the arrest of student protesters. (Link in bio.)
“What would rebuilding even look like? Hadn’t this idea of A University, in some sense, tragically and totally failed us? Didn’t we still know nothing?” In the first in a series of dispatches about the campus protests, Cecilia Barron reports from Brown:
“There are no universities left in Gaza,” read one sign from Brown’s encampment for Palestine, which officially came to a close yesterday. The sign faced […]
“’When is the drag queen arriving?’ Among American Kant scholars, word on the street was that a drag queen would perform at Kant’s tricentennial birthday celebration.” A dispatch from the Kant Festakt in Berlin:
Among American Kant scholars, word on the street was that a drag queen would perform at Kant’s tricentennial birthday celebration.
Maya Krishnan reports from Kant's 300th birthday party in Berlin (link in bio). 🥳
"Perhaps McWhorter talked right over an excellent moment for his students to understand Cage, and for their teacher to fully confront the urgency of the protests in which his campus is engulfed." New on Forms of Life, Crispin Sartwell on campus activist and Cage's 4'33"
On Thursday, April 18th, John McWhorter, associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University, met his class in “music humanities”: a class, one presumes, about what […]
Three philosophers on Kant’s intellectual legacy, in honor of his 300th birthday:
Today marks the three hundredth anniversary of Immanuel Kant’s birth. In his honor, we’ve invited three philosophers and scholars to write about their favorite passages […]
“They are saying their final words in poetry because poetry survives.” New online, a conversation with Atef Alshaer—the first installment in “Preserving Gaza,” an interview series led by Ursula Lindsey on Gaza’s history, heritage and cultural life:
This is the first installment of “Preserving Gaza,” a series of interviews with Palestinian writers and scholars about particular aspects of Gaza’s history, heritage and cultural life.
“Killers of the Flower Moon’s dominating mood is funereal, and it’s a film that wonders about our relationship to the dead, its chorus of funerals for its forgotten players like prayers to keep the history dramatized in the film etched in memory before the film goes where all films now go, in the great stream of content.”
Just in time for the Oscars, Niles Schwartz on Scorsese’s American tragedy:
Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon opens with a holy man’s prayer before a burial. Curiously, this rite doesn’t feature a human body. It’s […]
“What claim can literature make on the world when its own techniques have become incorporated into the fabric of reality itself?” New online: James Duesterberg on Natasha Stagg, and how to write about a world in which style has become substance:
“When I think about the internet (which is impossible),” Natasha Stagg writes, “I feel similar to when I have a crush. I feel crushed.” The […]
“‘Hood’ was always an image before it registered as anything like an icon, the article of clothing and the neighborhood collapsing together, one gesturing toward the other.” For the website, Nicholas Russell on a haunted American symbol:
I went running in a hoodie recently and a car swerved too close for comfort.
“Musk is a very ordinary man. A con man; a fraudster. Worst of all, a government contractor.” New online, Sam Kriss reviews Elon Musk, the man and the biography:
I know that I’m supposed to hate Elon Musk.
“No one can really believe in an apology until after it happens. That’s the telltale mark of a miracle.” Agnes Callard on the everyday miracle of saying you’re sorry.
There is a minor grievance I have been nursing for some time now, against a friend who uninvited me from a party he threw.
Our 15 most popular articles of 2023, from beauty to hyperpolitics to de Beauvoir:
As 2023 comes to a close, we’re proud to present our most-read web pieces of the year, listed below in reverse order. If you enjoy […]
“In ‘The Fraud,‘ a genealogy of our past is refashioned into an analogy for our present; history is replaced by empty chronology (or the eternal return of the same).” Rosemarie Ho on Zadie Smith and the condition of the social novel, from our new issue:
It is the expression of a woman existing in a post-revolutionary age—which, The Fraud suggests, is where well-meaning liberals, even those with novelistic aspirations, may be doomed to live.
Our winter issue—with literature by Carmen Boullosa, Sabine Huynh and Ann Manov—is now online.
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