Mirror Issues: How the President Reflects the State of the Nation | Hari Kunzru, Jacqueline Rose, Patricia Williams| The New York Review of Books

In the third installment of The New York Review of Books’s series of online events on the 2024 presidential election, held on October 17, 2024, award-winning writers and scholars Hari Kunzru, Jacqueline Rose, and Patricia Williams discussed race, gender, the psyche, and how the identity of the next president reflects the state of the nation.

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Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru’s latest publications are the novel Red Pill and the nonfiction audiobook and podcast Into the Zone. (August 2022)

Jacqueline Rose

Jacqueline Rose is Codirector of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in London and the author of The Plague: Living Death in Our Times, among other books. (November 2024)

Patricia J. Williams

Patricia J. Williams is University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities at Northeastern. She is a contributing writer to The Nation and the author, most recently, of The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law. (December 2024)