Political Currents by Ross Barkan
Ross BarkanThis is Ross Barkan's newsletter - original essays on politics, society, and culture
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 624 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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You Have to Understand What You Hate
If I had to dispense any advice to a young writer or someone who aspires to an intellectual life, I would tell them they have to know their enemy. It is striking, in the current age, how few people do. The left and right are equally guilty,...
Zohran Mamdani and the Remaking of American Politics
I haven’t talked all that much about the fact that, from last November to this April, I wrote a book about Zohran Mamdani’s rise to power and early days as mayor. I spent several hours interviewing Mamdani and spoke with more than two dozen...
The New Socialist Revolution
My new novel Colossus is available wherever books are sold. Here’s what Bret Easton Ellis had to say about it: “Barkan is reaching back to the past, to a traditional kind of novel, one much closer to Richard Ford and John Updike ... We are...
A Political Season Without the New York Times
Life without endorsements
And so another high profile election season has passed in New York City without the New York Times editorial board endorsing in any of the major races. Few, truthfully, have noticed. Ever since the Times announced...
The Return of Boring
Friday! Brooklyn! Come to Unnameable Books on 615 Vanderbilt Avenue and hear me read from Colossus. Here’s what Bret Easton Ellis has to say about my new novel: “Barkan is reaching back to the past, to a traditional kind of novel, one much...
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My new novel, Colossus, is out now. I'm also the author of Glass Century, Editor-in-Chief of The Metropolitan Review, and a columnist for New York Magazine.
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