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Our December 18 issue—the Holiday Issue—is now online, with Frances Wilson on Patricia Lockwood’s magnificent feat of a Covid novel, Lucy Sante on Joe Brainard’s comics, Susan Tallman on plunder and repatriation at the museum, Paisley Currah on the attack on trans rights, Diarmaid MacCulloch on Jesus and Mary, Yuri Slezkine on “the West,” Pria Anand on the persistence of tuberculosis, Jed S. Rakoff on the cryptocurrency scam, Annette Gordon-Reed on Thomas Jefferson and liberty, Andrew O’Hagan on the Oasis reunion, poems by Lindsay Turner and Ishion Hutchinson, and much more.
Annette Gordon-Reed
Jefferson Divided
Though his writings grappled with the contradiction between bondage and liberty, Thomas Jefferson’s life was indebted to those he enslaved.
Frances Wilson
Hearing Your Ears Pop
In Patricia Lockwood’s latest novel, catching Covid intensifies a woman’s relationship to language.
Jed S. Rakoff
It’s a Racket!
Cryptocurrency has largely managed to remain free of government regulation, and as a result has often become a vehicle for fraud and criminality.
John Banville
Henry James’s ‘Dear Native Land’
The writer’s 1904 tour of America left him little less than horrified at what he encountered.
Martin Filler
The Calders of Philadelphia
At Calder Gardens, art, architecture, and horticulture achieve a well-nigh perfect equilibrium.
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