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Fall 2024

Issue 33

The annotated table of contents below offers a sneak peek at what's in Issue 33.


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Letter

On Students

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As the campus protests against the war in Gaza spread across the country this past spring, affecting hundreds of colleges and resulting in the arrest […]


 

Essays

Everything Is Out of Water

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Academic philosophers—people for whom philosophy is a profession—like to joke about their discomfort on airplanes.


Popular History

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What role do we really want history to be playing in our public life? And is the history we have actually doing that work?


Teeth

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Teeth are our meeting place with the outside world, the point of attack.


 

Symposium

Schooling Myself

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I was four and a half, and had recently informed my mother that I needed to learn to read by my fifth birthday.


Beyond Neutrality

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Protest exposes a tension between the university’s intellectual mission and its political ambitions.


The Velvet Ditch

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“Happy hour at the City Grocery in Oxford, Mississippi is where the whole hip world would spend Thursday night if the Nazis won the war,” I say. 


Commit Lit

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In 2012, at the age of 25, I quit my part-time jobs cooking and cleaning houses and, having dropped out during my first semester seven years earlier, went back to school.


 

Literature

The Screen

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The screen is very tall. It can’t be passed over or under or around or beside, has no gaps or passageways.


 

Reviews

Percival Everett’s Great Books

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If James is Everett’s most substantial intervention into the culture wars yet, it’s because the novel does not just satirize the politics of racial representation but penetrates to their very root.


Anorexia and Autonomy

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Like many women, Simone Weil had a difficult relationship with food.


Jeopardy!

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I took the coward’s way out on Jeopardy!.