Between Yourself and This Bygone Place Between Yourself and This Bygone Place
On Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, Diao Yinan’s The Wild Goose Lake, Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You, and other recent films.
Mar 13, 2020 / Stuart Klawans
We Need Multilingual Student Journalism We Need Multilingual Student Journalism
How the news is presented should not hinder anyone from staying informed. As student journalists, we can make sure of that.
Mar 13, 2020 / StudentNation / Rebecca Duke Wiesenberg
Puzzle No. 3527 Puzzle No. 3527
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Invest a bit of money in trade for wetland (5) 4 Prize in the direction of Harding? (4,5) 9 Conditions color poli…
Mar 12, 2020 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Bad Bunny Answers to No One Bad Bunny Answers to No One
YHLQMDLG isn’t perfect, but it’s evidence that the Puerto Rican artist’s short career so far is iconoclastic and uncompromising.
Mar 12, 2020 / Julyssa Lopez
Jessica Hagedorn Looks Back on the Legacy of ‘Dogeaters’ Jessica Hagedorn Looks Back on the Legacy of ‘Dogeaters’
We talked to the author about the enduring influence of her now 30-year-old novel on life in Marcos-era Philippines.
Mar 11, 2020 / Q&A / Noah Flora
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