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Our December 4 issue is now online, with James Gleick on the Internet before it sucked, Ursula Lindsey on Vigdis Hjorth’s sneaky novels of interpersonal dysfunction, Sophie Pinkham on Uzbek art, Gordon F. Sander on Trump’s strange designs on Greenland, Michael Gorra on Cheever fille, Dan Kaufman on the resurgence of Francisco Francophilia, Robert Sullivan on the Native American fight for sovereignty, Adam Kirsch on Giorgio Agamben’s poetic philosophy, Zephyr Teachout on America’s scam economy, poems by Karl Kirchwey and Sylvie Kandé, and much more.

Gordon F. Sander
Not for Sale

President Trump’s threats to seize Greenland have caused consternation and fear among Danes and Greenlanders alike.

Michael Gorra
Fathers and Daughters

Susan Cheever’s recollections of her childhood illuminate the obsessions and failures that lay behind her father’s fiction.

Susan Neiman
Where Wokeness Went Wrong

Symbolic struggles cannot be a force of resistance to the Trump administration.

Natasha Wimmer
The Bureaucrat in His Labyrinth

Benito Pérez Galdós’s mid-career novel Miaow sketches the absurd tribulations of a laid-off civil servant.

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Christopher Benfey
Anni’s Orchestra

The late prints of Anni Albers bear out her conviction that artists need to “listen” to their materials, be “tuned” to them.

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