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“If Jews didn’t exist, the right would need to invent them, to act as the snake in the garden. The latest in this history—of the right creating Jewish boogeymen to act as a source of subversion—is something they call ‘cultural Marxism.’” buff.ly/V3uJvm7

“Why aren’t people reading the book review section? Why aren’t people buying literary fiction? Because the university is not producing readers of literary fiction.” Aarthi Vadde, Dan Sinykin, and Sarah Brouillette on the decline in book coverage. buff.ly/38t8HFM

“The network of public and private companies and nonprofits that coordinate their operations to make this illustrative system functional is in itself an intricate web that is also largely invisible to many city dwellers.” buff.ly/G7yW4v2

“After the program, I found myself looking at the city in a new way, seeing line and shape in the vistas outside the M train as it hurled toward Manhattan. My destination, SoHo, has become a very different place since Trisha Brown danced on its rooftops.” buff.ly/6DMTfdG

“Paying attention to the temporary markings etched onto the asphalt, we are afforded a glimpse into the otherwise hidden world that lies below the city’s surface.” buff.ly/G7yW4v2

“For believers, [cultural Marxism] explains everything that has happened in politics and culture since the 1960s. It ties … the survival of freedom and civilization to all the petty cultural grievances believers have into one seamless story.” buff.ly/V3uJvm7

“Is it easier to recreate a dance than a costume? And why would you want to anyway?” New at PB: Victoria Wiet reviews Dancing with Bob by the Trisha Brown Dance Company. buff.ly/6DMTfdG

In a new @NovelDialogue, Dan Sinykin asks: “If the literary ecosystem is dying, how do you make sense of the fact that we’ve gone from 10,000 to millions of works of published fiction annually?” @brouillettese: “Because no one is buying those books.” buff.ly/38t8HFM

“I didn’t feel comfortable saying ‘social media is causing X.’ I wanted to think about, ‘Well, what’s causing social media?’” New @NovelDialogue: @brouillettese reflects on the “dynamic of platformization,” and the dying literary ecosystem. buff.ly/38t8HFM

“What appears here as a playful and personal practice of noticing is also a democratic one: As long as law leaves visible material traces on the street, it remains at least partially accessible, interpretable, and open to public encounter.” buff.ly/G7yW4v2

“Among other things, ‘The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy’ stands as a splendid example of how to do intellectual history of what would, once, have been considered sub-intellectual.” New at PB: Peter Berard reviews “The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy." buff.ly/V3uJvm7

In a new episode of @NovelDialogue, Dan Sinykin and Sarah Brouillette join for a conversation on the economic and social forces shaping contemporary literature—and how we might complicate the “naturalizing” metaphor of the “literary ecosystem.” buff.ly/38t8HFM

“Rauschenberg sought to close the gap between art and life by literally filling his artworks with stuff from the real world, and in Set and Reset, Rauschenberg’s costumes and set pieces give concrete meaning to Brown’s geometric abstractions.” buff.ly/6DMTfdG

Feminism. Anti-racism. Gay rights. Trans rights. For the far-right, these movements are nothing more than a Jewish plot against Western civilization. In a new review of "The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy," Peter Berard explores the origins of this thinking. buff.ly/V3uJvm7

“Recreating Rauschenberg’s designs required turning archival records into living contributors to the creative process, revealing how production design is essential to meaning making.” New at PB: Victoria Wiet on “Dancing with Bob.” buff.ly/6DMTfdG

Spray-painted circles, squiggles, diamonds, and dots. To the casual observer, they mean nothing. But for Irus Braverman, they offer insight into the law in practice. New at PB: Irus Braverman explains the cement markings that appear on city streets. buff.ly/G7yW4v2

Last year marked the 100th birthday of visual artist Robert Rauschenberg. In a new review, Victoria Wiet explores how the Trisha Brown Dance Company used Rauschenberg’s archives to revive the 1983 classic, “Set and Reset.” buff.ly/6DMTfdG

“What appears at first to be mere street scribbles is, in fact, a portal into the legal, infrastructural, and ecological systems that shape urban life.” New at PB: Irus Braverman decodes the laws captured in spray-painted cement markings. buff.ly/G7yW4v2

“What appears at first to be mere street scribbles is, in fact, a portal into the legal, infrastructural, and ecological systems that shape urban life.” New at PB: Irus Braverman decodes the laws captured in spray-painted cement markings. buff.ly/G7yW4v2

“A movement organized on the oppressor’s cloud is programmed to fail.” New at PB: Nataliya Bondareva raises questions about digital social activism—and offers tools on using platforms for social movements in responsible ways. buff.ly/q1QNnvY