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Billy Anania

Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.

Class, Taste and Sour Grapes

Last month, Rudy Kurniawan was released after seven years in prison for passing off cheap fakes as fine wine – a crime punished, above all, for exposing ruling class pretensions about taste.

India’s Farmer Revolt

India’s government is trying to force through a corporate takeover of its agricultural sector – but their plans have met fierce resistance from the country’s farmers, who are refusing to hand over their livelihoods.

Tory Cuts Are Causing a Sexual Health Crisis

England’s sexual health services have had their funding slashed by 25% in the past five years, leaving clinics and other services severely understaffed. It is an avoidable crisis – entirely caused by Tory government policies.

I Was a Teenage Derridean

A new biography of the French philosopher reveals a core of political seriousness in his work. But why was he so popular in the universities of the 1980s and 1990s?

The Truth About Fake News

Writer Marcus Gilroy-Ware speaks to Tribune about real-life conspiracies, healthy suspicion versus naïve optimism, and the liberal complacency that underlies the post-truth world.

How Grey Was Communism?

Communist states in Eastern Europe were imagined as places drained of all colour, outside of time – but it’s increasingly clear they were a lot more colourful than we were led to believe.