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BY JEET HEER COLUMNS UP FRONT REVIEW 4 The internet makes 8 Social media has 58 Adrienne Rich’s 74 Jill Lepore rewrites the critical information changed the definition feminist awakening, history of a Greenwich accessible. Now of activism. glimpsed through her Village hero. let’s make it usable. BY NAVNEET ALANG unpublished letters. BY EVAN KINDLEY BY PAUL FORD BY MICHELLE DEAN 9 McGovern’s prophetic 78 Did Vladimir 6 Home delivery 1972 campaign. 66 The Metropolitan Nabokov’s literary fame is the new frontier BY JOSHUA MOUND Museum makes a overshadow his for restaurateurs. bid for the modern. scientific achievements? 11 Profiting from Harper BY CORBY KUMMER BY IAN VOLNER BY LAURA MARSH Lee’s legacy. BY ALEX SHEPHARD 69 For teenage girls on 81 Life and death social media, attention among the gangs of 13 Ellen Ullman’s radical is a way to be heard. Central America. vision for Silicon Valley. BY ELSPETH REEVE BY SARAH ESTHER MASLIN BY ANNA WIENER 72 The tenants and 84 Backstory 16 China’s “weird” landlords caught PHOTOGRAPH BY architecture is a global in America’s vicious EDOUARD ELIAS power play. cycle of eviction. BY BIANCA BOSKER BY BRANDON HARRIS COVER ILLUSTRATION BY POETRY 73 Men Are Pointless BY DOROTHEA LASKY | 83 Black Glove BY D.A. POWELL DANIEL ZENDER FIELD PORTRAITS The NEW REPUBLIC’s series on the indelible political figures of the 2016 election by leading literary writers. Chief Executive Officer Patricia Lockwood, a poet, journeyed to the Live Free or Die Guy Vidra state to chronicle Trump’s triumph in the New Hampshire primary. Chief Executive Officer GuyEditor Vidra in Chief Director, People and Finance During his victory rally she became a true American hero in her own Gabriel Snyder Paul Biboud-Lubeck right—coming to the aid of a fainting young woman. “She was swaying Controller ExecutiveEditor In Chief Editor DavidChief MyerRevenue Officer back and forth, obviously about to face plant, and the dudes around Gabriel Snyder Kayvan Salmanpour Ryan Kearney Director of Digital Design her were just watching with their hands in their pockets, with looks on Culture Editor SilasChief Burton Product Officer their faces like, Let the free market decide!” LOST IN TRUMPLANDIA, P. 28 Eliot Pierce ExecutiveMichelle Legro Web Editor Director of Software PoliticsRyan Kearney Editor Gregg Meluski Clancy Martin, a Calgarian (like Ted Cruz), was raised by FeaturesBob Moser Director ProductDirector, Manager New Republic Creative a questionably stable preacher (like Ted Cruz), is uncomfortable at FeaturesTheodore Directors Ross MaxAmelia Zimbert Pisapia parties (like Ted Cruz), and, due to his work on the philosophy of StorySasha Editor Belenky, Theodore Ross Digital Operations Director DeputyChloë Schama Editor SeniorMark Lewis Director, Marketing deception, has been referred to as “The Lie Guy” (somewhat catchier ManagingRyu Spaeth Editor ErikaProduct Velazquez Designer than “Lyin’ Ted”). His most recent novel is Bad Sex (as for Ted Cruz… StoryElaine Editor Teng SeniorSilas Burton Integrated Marketing Manager well, no one’s saying). BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL, P. 18 PoetryLaura Marsh Editor EvelynDirector Frison of Finance & Operations ManagingCathy Park Editor Hong Paul Biboud-Lubeck Elaine Teng ViceController President of Sales PoetrySenior EditorsEditor SuzanneDavid Myer Grossman contributors CathyBrian Beutler, Park Hong Jeet Heer, AdvertisingAssistant To Account The Publisher Manager Suzy Khimm, Elspeth Reeve, NanoGenevieve Fabuss Powers Michelle Dean, a contributing editor at the new republic, felt Senior Editors Jamil Smith, Rebecca Traister SalesAssistant Intern To The Chief Brian Beutler, Jeet Heer, very lucky when she stumbled on a cache of Adrienne Rich’s letters Shawn Awan Elspeth Reeve Executive Officer to Hayden Carruth, like the scholars in A.S. Byatt’s Possession. “I read Staff Writers Molly Wraight them in perhaps two days altogether, all one thousand pages,” she said. ContributingChristopher Beam, Editors New Republic Advisory Board Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig, William A. 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