Trump’s Threats to the Iranians Trump’s Threats to the Iranians
He said we would target their cultural sites. The next day, he had much less surety. Still, thinking of what might be culture to him, They’re beefing up golf course security.
Jan 21, 2020 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Nightmare Touched Its Forehead to My Lips The Nightmare Touched Its Forehead to My Lips
For the living, water. And now, you’re all the wells mined for their depth. All of the silence & all of the alls I can conjure. You are not in the living room. You are not in y…
Jan 21, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Andrés Cerpa
Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide
Martin Luther King Jr. saw something essential about our nation: Imperial expansion west over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slave...
Jan 20, 2020 / Greg Grandin
Lauren Wilkinson’s Novel of Race, Empire, and Espionage Lauren Wilkinson’s Novel of Race, Empire, and Espionage
American Spy examines the intersections between spycraft and living in America as a black person.
Jan 20, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson
Puzzle No. 3521 Puzzle No. 3521
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle.1 ACROSS2 1 Song about law and a member of Congress, to friends (10)3 6 Three or four found in safe workplace (1,3)4 9 Boys…
Jan 16, 2020 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Debauched, Sometimes Sublime Essays of D.H. Lawrence The Debauched, Sometimes Sublime Essays of D.H. Lawrence
Jan 16, 2020 / Zachary Fine
H.T. Tsiang, the Flâneur of Socialist Fiction H.T. Tsiang, the Flâneur of Socialist Fiction
In the Chinese writer’s novels we are given a portrait of a New York City for the rich and the poor, the immigrant and the native-born, the newly homeless and the seasoned itineran...
Jan 15, 2020 / Nawal Arjini
Trump Reveals His Real Reason for Having Suleimani Killed Trump Reveals His Real Reason for Having Suleimani Killed
“Trump, former aides said, has burned with a desire to erase Obama’s foreign policy legacy and prove himself a superior Commander-in-Chief.” —The Washington Post I couldn’t abide o…
Jan 14, 2020 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Opinion Opinion
It was a lean-to one could live in so long as it never rained. It was a grain of salt close up, looking like a crystal, growing from itself like an outcrop of land. I…
Jan 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Militello