With Trump’s recent victory, what will the next four years hold for books and the arts?
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In the first Trump era, the president’s presence was impossible to avoid in the arts. His first term saw a proliferation of books about Trump and his excesses, dozens of documentaries about his life and presidential administration, and even the appearance of Trump-like figures in novels. The Biden years saw a slow ebbing of Trump’s dominance over popular culture, along with a promised return to normal. With Trump’s recent victory, what will the next four years hold for books and the arts?

TNR Live: Culture in the next Trump Era

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Mark Krotov, Publisher, co-editor, n+1 magazine

Laura Marsh, Literary editor, The New Republic

Osita Nwanevu, Contributing editor, The New Republic

Alex Shephard, Senior editor, The New Republic

Mark Krotov is the coeditor and publisher of n+1 and the coeditor of The Intellectual Situation (n+1 Books, 2024).

Laura Marsh is the literary editor of the New Republic and co-host of TNR’s podcast The Politics of Everything. She has written for the New York Review of Books, The Nation, Dissent, The Times Literary Supplement and Literary Review. Previously she was an editor at the New York Review of Books.

Osita Nwanevu is a contributing editor at and a columnist at . He is a former staff writer at The New Republic, , and , and his work has also appeared in , , , , the , and Gawker. His first book, The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, will be published by Random House next year.

Nwanevu is a former editor in chief of the South Side Weekly, a Chicago alternative newspaper; a 2015 graduate of the College at the University of Chicago; and a 2016 graduate of the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. He lives in Baltimore.

Alex Shephard is a senior editor at The New Republic, focusing on national politics and economics. His work has also appeared in The Nation, GQ, and TheAtlantic.com.