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It was early February, and Dylan Mulvaney was floating on the high seas — somewhere in the Caribbean, perhaps near St. Martin — on a cruise ship filled with nearly 5,000 gay men. Ms. Mulvaney, the 28-year-old performer, trans video diarist and cultural lighting rod at the center of an infamous Bud Light boycott in … Read more

HOW TO BE AVANT-GARDE: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art, by Morgan Falconer In July 1915, on the shores of Lake Garda, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti mounted his army-issue bicycle to perform military drills alongside the rest of the Lombard Battalion of Volunteer Cyclists and Motorists. In the hot Italian sun they raced their … Read more

LOOKING AT WOMEN LOOKING AT WAR: A War and Justice Diary, by Victoria Amelina; translated by Daisy Gibbons and Uilleam Blacker Three years after Vladimir Putin launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war is still raging. Whether Ukraine will prevail remains, for the moment, unknowable. In the bracing introductory pages of her remarkable book, … Read more

DREAM STATE, by Eric Puchner Even if you live in Montana, the place is partly a dream — a fantasy shaped by our cultural imagination and the vestiges of frontier mythology. But our vision of its future, and that of the rest of America, is now filtered through the dystopian lens of climate fear and … Read more

THE ECHOES, by Evie Wyld Death and its ambassadors, ghosts, are perpetually in style. Lookit: Just yesterday, in fact, several people died. Already this year, two movies on the topic have premiered: a remastering of Michael Roemer’s brilliant 1976 cinéma vérité film “Dying,” and “Presence,” Steven Soderbergh’s paranormal thriller about a ghost haunting the new … Read more

THEORY & PRACTICE, by Michelle de Kretser In the 1980s, an intellectual revolution took hold on college campuses, spreading, this newspaper reported at the time, “like kudzu.” Under the deceptively unassuming shorthand of “theory,” a heady brew of philosophical schools and ideas — many of them imported from France — upended longstanding assumptions about language, … Read more

About 40 minutes into a recent performance of “The Years” in London, Stephanie Schwartz suddenly felt ill and had to put her head between her legs. Onstage at the Harold Pinter Theater, the actress Romola Garai was holding two knitting needles while portraying a young Frenchwoman trying to give herself an abortion. The scene was … Read more

SNOWY DAY AND OTHER STORIES, by Lee Chang-dong; translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl and Yoosup Chang In the first minutes of “Burning,” a 2018 movie by the South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong, the voice of President Trump rings out from a TV newscast, setting the stage for the ensuing story of a young farmer’s son … Read more

JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, by Rebecca Romney It is a truth universally acknowledged (at least in publishing) that books about books sell well, and, judging by their profusion, that includes those devoted to Jane Austen Inc. “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” by Rebecca Romney, … Read more