Contributions by:
Nikil Saval
Foreign policy not so long ago seemed to move in maddeningly elitist ways far outside the public sphere of ordinary citizens, but it’s now almost downright de rigueur for many Americans, stung by blowback’ effects, to be interested in its arcane details. As a result of technological innovations ranging from a 24-hour news cycle to…
Read Full Article...At the height of the Vietnam War a sly Harvard law student addressed an assembly of parents and alumni. “The streets of our country are in turmoil,’ he said. “The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might. And the republic…
Read Full Article...Fiction and philosophy have had an uneasy time in the wake of 9/11. Perhaps it’s because no intellectual response can match or adequately combat the political response of the Bush Administration, which was swifter, more brutal, and more insidiously deceptive than even the most seasoned members of the Left imagined. In the wake of this…
Read Full Article...The publication history of Beautiful Children makes for what is now an old story, but still a telling one. Charles Bock, its author, comes from the provinces (Nevada) and an unconventional upbringing (son of Las Vegas pawnbrokers). He struggles through school and college until he discovers the “second wave” of American postmodernist writers, a nearly…
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