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2 months ago | 
thepointmag.com | Becca Rothfeld |Jessi Jezewska Stevens |Grazie Sophia Christie |Rafael Frumkin
By Jessi Jezewska Stevens How should the left counter right-wing irony, if not by adopting the same destructive rhetorical strategies as Trump, or else slipping back into its own contemptuous habits?
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Fady Joudah |Jessi Jezewska Stevens |Can Xue
they said, they didn’t sayon what. I am not a window,The window was on the ground floor. The room had a working door. The building was on fire. You were plotting our stay. I lost my elevation chart. I was uncouth. You to the hilt. I kissed your cave on the mouth:it wasn’t goodbye, wasn’t hello. We were naked, in disguise. Planning one sound for history,
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
internazionale.it | Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Ho scoperto la stagione invernale dei balli di Vienna grazie ai tabloid in lingua tedesca. L’evento clou della stagione, l’Opernball (ballo dell’Opera), frequentato da decine di vip, è molto seguito nel mondo germanofono. Ogni scintillante dettaglio viene consumato con un misto di aspirazione e risentimento: debuttanti, tiare, palchi costosissimi (prezzo di base: 13mila euro!). L’unico segno del ventunesimo secolo è la presenza di nomi come Kim Kardashian, che ha partecipato al ballo nel 2014.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Politics Europe Like many non-Austrians, I first discovered Vienna’s winter ball season through German-language tabloids. The celebrity-studded Opernball (Opera Ball), the season highlight, is widely covered in the German-speaking world, where it is streamed live on TV and culled for clickbait online.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
thedial.world | Jessi Jezewska Stevens
The first ball I attended was the Ball der Wissenschaften (Science Ball). Oliver Lehmann, who has served as the event’s director since 2014, is aware of the season’s appeal for foreigners: “For a lot of our friends and guests from the U.K. and the U.S., but also from Switzerland and Germany,” he said over a Zoom call before I arrived, “a ball sounds like a sugar fairy tale from a Walt Disney movie.” Lehmann admitted that there is some truth to that image.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Jessi Jezewska Stevens
United States Russia In a 2023 interview, the American author Amor Towles explained his literary approach as follows: “Certainly the ambition is to create a work that will resonate, that is open to all and will resonate with many as the goal.” In a 2023 interview, the American author Amor Towles explained his literary approach as follows: “Certainly the ambition is to create a work that will resonate, that is open to all and will resonate with many as the goal.” Resonate Towles has. Since...
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Wynter K. Miller |Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Compulsively Trying to Please People Who Never Liked Me Share article How had we turned out this way? My friend and I were plumbing disappointments over slices of cake. That was one of the best things about this country—people regularly ate Kuchen. It was normal. Not so normal, alas, were our relationships. “Are they that harsh with you?” I asked.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Economics Europe The ninth International Degrowth Conference, held in August this year in Zagreb, Croatia, opens with a provocation. Keynote speaker Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, the newly elected vice chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has two requests to make of the audience.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
andotherstories.org | Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Jessi Jezewska Stevens
With her novel The Visitors, Jessi Jezewska Stevens has proven herself as our preeminent purveyor of comical, techno-millenarian unease. Now, with this first collection of her acclaimed short fiction – originally appearing in such venues as The Paris Review and Harper’s – some of her very best work is at last readily available to readers.
