Plus, Daniela Catrileo's newly translated novel; the next generation of progressive pundits; RFK Jr.'s war on junk food; DHS's neo-Nazi memes; and more...
Journalist Rebecca Grant shifts the abortion conversation away from laws and morals to focus on access: getting people the care they seek. | | | Daniela Catrileo explores Indigenous identity and the rural-urban divide from an intimate, feminist perspective in her newly translated novel, Chilco. | They're not on MSNBC—they're streaming on YouTube and Twitch. | The health and human services secretary wants to limit access to items he has called "poison." But this mission is more complex than it seems, with serious consequences for low-income citizens. | What subscribers are reading: | | | Having failed to learn the key lesson from last year's defeat, party leaders are promoting moderate candidates to run against populist progressives in next year's elections. | | | | | As the Republican Party further radicalizes, mainstream news organizations are still trying to cover politics as they always have. But alternative news sources are emerging. | By Right Now With Perry Bacon | From the beginning, the Department of Homeland Security has downplayed the threat of white nationalism while focusing its law enforcement power on groups it deems a threat to an imaginary ideal America. | They're both quacks—but only one of them is in charge of the nation's health care policy. Can you tell them apart? | The late-career essay collection can serve multiple purposes, none of which are mutually exclusive: It is a point of introduction to a new readership, one that may know the writer's name but may be intimidated by their output, or simply want an easy place to start; it gives longtime readers a chance to encounter things they may have missed, little jewels for the completionists among us; and it may attempt to burnish the legacy of a writer in their twilight years who aims for one more chance at self-definition before their work is taken apart, posthumously, by literary wolves. Not that Jamaica Kincaid's legacy needs much burnishing—the Antigua-born novelist and essayist's five-decade-long career is one that few writers would turn down. "In 1966, at the age of 17, with no money, no connections and no practical training, Elaine Potter Richardson left the West Indian island of Antigua, bound for New York and a job as an au pair," a New York Times profile on Kincaid from 1990 reads. "She did not return until she was 36. By then she was Jamaica Kincaid, a respected author of fiction and a staff writer for The New Yorker, whose prose is studied in universities and widely anthologized." In the 35 years since, her stature has only grown... | | | A recent filing from the president's lawyer presents the court with faulty economic calculations, dubious legal theories, and the distinct scent of desperation. | | | | | Update your personal preferences for comercialyventas.aliperiodicos@blogger.com by clicking here. Our mailing address is: The New Republic, 1 Union Sq W Fl 6 , NY , New York, NY 10003-3303, United States Do you want to stop receiving all emails from Culture? Unsubscribe from this list. If you stopped getting TNR emails, update your profile to resume receiving them. | | | | |
