Banking on Bullshit Banking on Bullshit
Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan’s recent book argues that the financial system is built on a system that incentivizes sabotage and cheating.
Mar 10, 2020 / Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
Gary Indiana’s ‘Depraved Indifference’ Is the Best Diagnosis of Our Scam-Obsessed Times Gary Indiana’s ‘Depraved Indifference’ Is the Best Diagnosis of Our Scam-Obsessed Times
His recently republished novel examines how cons, narcissism, and commodity worship became national pastimes.
Mar 9, 2020 / Zoë Hu
Danez Smith Makes Room for the Messiness of Language Danez Smith Makes Room for the Messiness of Language
We talked to Smith about their new poetry collection, Homie, and what it means to create poetic space for your community.
Mar 5, 2020 / Q&A / Rosemarie Ho
Marguerite Duras’s Radical Tales of Love and Revolt Marguerite Duras’s Radical Tales of Love and Revolt
L’Été 80, her fable-like political column for Libération, showed the full force of the revolutionary energies running through the French writer’s work.
Mar 4, 2020 / Gili Ostfield
Richard Grenell Named Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell Named Acting Director of National Intelligence
The flunky ranks begin to swell: Trump’s intel chief’s now R. Grenell, Who must repel what doesn’t jell With hokum all Fox anchors sell. On non-Fox facts he mustn’t dwell Or he wil…
Mar 3, 2020 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Portal Portal
The boats in the international port prove that from the edge of The Great Lake, though fresh, though still, no scrap of earth can’t be reached. For his sake, V has stepped onto a s…
Mar 3, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Carolyn Guinzio
Choose Your Life Choose Your Life
Either an intruder’s in the house or I’m shopping online. An intruder or stargazer lilies in a vase. A noise my body makes. My body in a different room. Yesterday we played I was…
Mar 3, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Steve Healey
The Protests That Made and Unmade Japan’s Postwar Left The Protests That Made and Unmade Japan’s Postwar Left
The demonstrations against the Anpo treaty remain the largest protest movement in Japanese history and yet their defeat cleared the path for decades of conservative rule.
Mar 3, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Colin Jones
What Does Hollywood Lose When It Works With China? What Does Hollywood Lose When It Works With China?
They may fight over censorship and trade, but the biggest players all want the same thing: movies that make as much money as possible.
Mar 3, 2020 / Phoebe Chen