February 2017
Farewell to Dore Ashton, one of our favorite contributors and a grande dame of art criticism. [New York Times]
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra has just been published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. You can read Mishra's "The Entrapments of Top-Down Modernity" in our Fall 2016 issue (print only).
...The key to mimic man's behavior lies not in any clash of opposed civilizations, but, on the contrary, in irresistible mimetic desire: the logic of fascination, emulation, and righteous self-assertion that binds the rivals inseparably...
-- Pankaj Mishra (Fall 2016)
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