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June 20, 10:49 pm

Need a quick break?

Break up your routine with reflections that will keep you thinking.
 

While we tend to think that nothing beats reading the magazine in print, you’ll still find a wide selection of our articles on our website. These articles fall under the categories “Examined Life” (philosophy and personal essays), “Politics” (political analysis, opinion and reporting) and “Criticism” (reviews of books, art, film and more). 

We’ve curated some of our most popular essays from each section for you to check out below.

KIRA THURMAN

Singing Against the Grain

Playing Beethoven in the #BlackLivesMatter era

"Over the course of my life I have learned that to be black and a classical musician is considered to be a contradiction."

Kira Thurman on identity, aesthetic pleasure, and the dilemmas faced by black classical musicians, who have been “held up as symbols of racial advancement … or denounced as Uncle Toms.”


JAMES DUESTERBERG

Final Fantasy

Neoreactionary politics and the liberal imagination
 
“We cannot explain away the strangeness of the current moment in U.S. politics. But we should not turn away from the even deeper strangeness it reveals.”
 
Check out James Duesterberg’s roadmap to the “Dark Enlightenment,” the political philosophers of the alt-right.


TORIL MOI

Describing My Struggle


“To read My Struggle well, we have to let it teach us how to read it, teach us how to break with the old conventions of reading.”
 
Literary critic Toril Moi on how Knausgaard’s My Struggle challenges the reading strategies of critical theory, and offers a new way to attend to books.

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