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If These Tiks Could Tok
Yi-Ling Liu
Planet TikTok
The app’s young user base, fragmented content, and amped-up algorithm helped it spread around the world. If the US bans it, what would be lost?
Natasha Wimmer
The Watercolorist
The short fiction of Ángel Bonomini possesses a lightness that sets him apart from contemporaries like Borges and Cortázar.
X Days Since the Genocide Began
I feel an obligation not to cry
around my dog
else she gets frightened
and shakes. I’m not comparing
children to dogs like Israel does,
but they share emotionality
Marilynne Robinson
Agreeing to Our Harm
“My subject is the rage and rejection that have emerged in America, threatening to displace politics, therefore democracy, and to supplant them with a figure whose rage and resentment excite an extreme loyalty, and disloyalty, a sort of black mass of patriotism, a business of inverted words and symbols where the idea of the sacred is turned against itself.”
Free from the Archives
Haruki Murakami’s first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, was published in Japan forty-five years ago this month. For the Review’s March 1, 2007, issue, Christian Caryl read Murakami’s short story collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman and surveyed the career of a writer fascinated by “the shaky interface between waking and sleep…the way that it appears to connect alternate worlds, and throws up questions about the lines that separate illusion and reality.”
In the summer of 2004, John Wray visited Murakami at his office in Aoyama, Tokyo, to interview him for The Paris Review. They discussed surrealistic style, the virtues of being a loner, crime novels, “strangeness,” and much else besides.
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Christian Caryl
Gods of the Mall
“Murakami is a writer who likes to keep things slippery. He is fascinated by the protean side of being; his inertial heroes make the perfect foil for his furling plots, which accumulate disquiet as they progress. He is especially fond of blurring the boundaries between waking and nonwaking states.”
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