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Today in The New York Review of Books: Jay Neugeboren on the rise of working homelessness; Elaine Blair on women’s work in the Soviet Union; Vicente L. Rafael on a forgotten massacre in the Philippines; Ken Chen on the films of Miguel Gomes; Peter Cole on the poetry of Hayim Nahman Bialik; David Cole on Trump’s extrajudicial killings on the high seas; and László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel.

Also, congratulations to László Krasznahorkai, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature today. Read an excerpt of his novella Animalinside, free from our archives, below.

Jay Neugeboren
The Homeless We Don’t See

As housing costs have risen and affordable housing remains in short supply, even Americans with full-time jobs are experiencing homelessness.

Elaine Blair
Equality Without Feminism?

The Soviet Union’s ambitious program of gender equality could never be separated from its abuses of power.

Vicente L. Rafael
Massacre Under the Starry Flag

The history of a single photograph reveals how an atrocity in the Philippines was forgotten by its American perpetrators.

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Ken Chen
Serene and Delirious

Both the strengths and weaknesses of Miguel Gomes’s films come from their commitment to capturing the porousness of life.

Peter Cole
Psalmist of the Gap

Often mislabeled as a proto-Zionist oracle of vengeance, Hayim Nahman Bialik speaks to us now instead as a poet of poise under soul-crushing pressure.

David Cole
Getting Away with Murder

Trump has now ordered the killing of at least seventeen people on the high seas—with no accountability.

Free from the Archives

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai today. Known for exploring apocalyptic visions in dense novels like The Melancholy of Resistance and Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, Krasznahorkai is also a master of the short-form, and in 2011 he collaborated with the artist Max Neumann on a novella inspired by Neumann’s artwork, Animalinside, which was excerpted in The New York Review. “The prose of Hungarian Novelist László Krasznahorkai is full of menace,” Colm Toibin wrote in his introduction to the work, “but it would be a mistake to read the menace either as political or coming from nowhere.”

László Krasznahorkai Animalinside: A Collaboration

“The day is coming and we are coming, and seeing as it’s already here, seeing as that day has come, and you didn’t notice that it has come, here we are, we see it all, we see what you’re doing with your little chests, we see what you’re doing with your little possessions, and we see what you’re doing with the child, we see everything already from up here…”

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