Victoria Baena

Jan 22, 2025 | dissentmagazine.org | Joanna Wuest |Briana S. Last |Victoria Baena |Yangyang Cheng

Jacqueline Rose’s Wild Analysis Our ugliest psychological impulses can be a starting point for social criticism. Two Homes at War For those whose hyphenated identities straddle a divided world, life is a series of compromises. Therapy With a Human Face The feminization of therapy is crucial to understanding how it became both devalued and out of reach. Please consider donating to Dissent.

Aug 22, 2024 | nybooks.com | Victoria Baena

In 1924, when he was in his mid-twenties, Bertolt Brecht and his frequent collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann started work on a play set in Chicago. Neither of them had yet lived in America, but the city, with its slick steel skyscrapers and history of strikes, fascinated Brecht as an emblem of the promises and pitfalls of capitalist modernity. The project that would become Fleischhacker centered on a speculator in the wheat futures market.

Jan 22, 2024 | yalereview.org | Victoria Baena

Books Victoria Baena Across the seven volumes of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, one name appears more than any other: Albertine. The nearly nameless narrator-hero (for simplicity’s sake, we can call him “Marcel”) adores, envies, mistrusts, grows bored by, and fantasizes about his beloved by turns. Albertine evades all manner of endeavors to pin her down.

Sep 5, 2023 | dissentmagazine.org | Victoria Baena

Jacqueline Rose’s Wild Analysis Our ugliest psychological impulses can be a starting point for social criticism. ▪ Fall 2023 The Plague: Living Death in Our Timesby Jacqueline RoseFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023, 176 pp. In March 2020, the writer and academic Jacqueline Rose was putting the finishing touches on her book On Violence and On Violence Against Women when the avenues of the world’s capitals grew quiet. Wild animals began to stalk urban streets.

Sep 5, 2023 | dissentmagazine.org | Bijan Stephen |Angus Burgin |Victoria Baena |Rich Yeselson

Crime Online The majority of property crimes now occur online. Our legal system hasn’t caught up. ▪ Fall 2023 Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacksby Scott J. ShapiroFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023, 432 pp. Crime has decreased significantly in the United States since the 1990s. Today, Americans are much less likely to become victims of burglary, theft, arson, and vandalism. But as everyone has moved online, so has crime.