Zadie Smith

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Screenshots from the AI-generated video of postwar Gaza that Donald Trump posted to his social media accounts on February 25, 2025

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On February 25, 2025, the president of the United States of America posted a video to his socials, an AI-created vision of a postwar Gaza. To enter this Trumpian utopia you first have to pass through a large hole, like the opening of a cave, or the entrance to a mine. On one side of the portal there is war, devastation, mass murder, orphaned children, destroyed homes. On the other, a beachfront resort of palm trees, bread bowls filled with hummus, Vegas-style hotels, and many golden idols of the great man himself. Dollar bills rain down democratically on ragged children and Elon Musk alike.…  Seguir leyendo »

La excepción de Estados Unidos

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Dice la verdad tan pocas veces que, cuando se le oye en sus propios labios —como el 29 de marzo de 2020—, adquiere la fuerza de una revelación: “Ojalá pudiéramos recuperar nuestra vida de antes. Teníamos la mejor economía de la historia, y no teníamos la muerte”.

Bueno, quizá no es una verdad total y sin adornos. La primera frase no era verdad ni mentira, sino simplemente un deseo. Un deseo que, cuando lo oí, cuando sentí el eco de su lamento en mi interior, reconozco que lo sopesé durante un instante en mi mano, como una manzana reluciente. Me pareció un deseo digno de “tiempos de guerra”, dado que la guerra es la analogía que prefiere utilizar.…  Seguir leyendo »

Michael Christopher Brown/Magnum Photos

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I first heard the name Ahmed Naji at a PEN dinner last spring. I looked up from my desert to a large projection of a young Egyptian man, rather handsome, slightly louche-looking, with a Burt Reynolds moustache, wearing a Nehru shirt in a dandyish print and the half smile of someone both amusing and easily amused. I learned that he was just thirty and had written a novel called Using Life for which he is currently serving a two-year prison sentence. I thought: good title. A facile thought to have at such a moment but it’s what came to mind. I liked the echo of Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual—the coolness of that—and thought I recognized, in Naji’s author photo, something antic and wild, not unlike what you see when you look at pictures of Perec.…  Seguir leyendo »