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Max Nelson
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Max Nelson
@elusivecorporal
online editor @nybooks
Brooklyn, NY Katılım Temmuz 2015
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Pankaj Mishra on the “rupture in historical memory” that has led India to forsake Iran go.nybooks.com/3N19jS3
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amazing mega essay on Chantal Akerman by @daniellashr in the LRB
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/…
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David Beal on Docteur Nico, the pioneering guitarist of Congolese rumba go.nybooks.com/4upseXs
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I wrote about the evacuation orders in Lebanon: lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/marc…
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Arang Keshavarzian on the war on Iran and the country’s long political-economic crisis go.nybooks.com/4s3GZh5
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A New York Times investigation indicates that it was a US strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people, mostly children. nytimes.com/2026/03/05/wor…
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Anyone who has been alive on this earth for more than 20 minutes has no excuse for not knowing that this is nothing but mass murder built on lies and is criminally arrogant, stupid, and cruel and will end badly for many, many thousands of people.
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For @nybooks went long on @kmendoncafilho and THE SECRET AGENT, aka the people’s best picture.
nybooks.com/online/2026/02…
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Whenever I think about the monumental work of Fred Wiseman in the shadow of America's present, I think above all of this scene from "Belfast, Maine." This one really hurts. youtube.com/watch?v=wt2NZK…
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There is no better guide than @stschrader1 to seeing how ICE/CBP is continuous with policing as we have come to know it in the USA. Essential reading.
The New York Review of Books@nybooks
Stuart Schrader (@stschrader1) on what Trump’s urban occupations mean for police and the unions that represent them go.nybooks.com/4aCtUnj
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What does Epstein’s household economy reveal about the Silicon Valley far-right? Melinda Cooper brilliantly traces the disturbing logic connecting primal patriarchy, transhumanism, and the erosion of the free labour contract. equator.org/articles/epste…
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I have an essay in the New York Review of Books about the Trump Administration’s cuts to Medicaid, and more broadly about the program’s origins, strengths, & flaws — and why the best way to advance its mission might be to replace it with something better.
nybooks.com/online/2026/02…
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Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. thenation.com/article/world/…
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I traveled home to Minnesota to report on the rolling fallout of Operation Metro Surge. Both the occupation and neighborhood responses was breathtaking in scale. History in the making.
nybooks.com/online/2026/01…
Thanks to the Economic Hardship Reporting Project
for support
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“Minneapolis learned a lot from the George Floyd protests and it shows. Well before Kristi Noem announced DHS operations in Minnesota, the neighborhood got ready.” New: a dispatch on mutual aid in South Minneapolis.
nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…
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Four months after the GenZ revolt, Nepal is gearing up for elections. But dismantling the old inequities will take nothing less than redefining what makes a Nepali. Can the GenZ revolution succeed where previous revolutions haven't? My essay in @nybooks:
nybooks.com/online/2026/01…
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I wrote about the longstanding dynamics that produced our terrifying present for @phenomenalworld.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/enfor…
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