The Grimké Sisters at Work on Theodore Dwight Weld’s ‘American Slavery as It Is’ (1838) The Grimké Sisters at Work on Theodore Dwight Weld’s ‘American Slavery as It Is’ (1838)
Somebody had to be the first to amass the proof from slaveholders’ mouths: twenty thousand newspapers from the South, the unthinking testimony parsed, scissored carefully into stri…
Sep 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Melissa Range
His Trusty Sharpie Pen His Trusty Sharpie Pen
Mistaken on the path the storm might take, Unable to acknowledge a mistake, He got a map of Dorian, and then He fixed it with his trusty Sharpie pen. So, soon will he show pictures…
Sep 17, 2019 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Sally Rooney and the Millennial Novel of Manners Sally Rooney and the Millennial Novel of Manners
Her second book, Normal People, mines the travails of Irish youth to tell a decidedly contemporary love story.
Sep 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
The Making of Moroccan Funk The Making of Moroccan Funk
Led by the Casablanca polymath Abdelakabir Faradjallah, the band Attarazat Addahabia defined the sound of the city.
Sep 17, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Marcus J. Moore
An Astonishing New Cancer Memoir Brings Radical Politics to the Genre An Astonishing New Cancer Memoir Brings Radical Politics to the Genre
Anne Boyer’s The Undying insists on a Marxist and feminist reading of the disease, opposing narratives confined to individual triumph or tragedy.
Sep 16, 2019 / Alex Ronan
Have Americans Become More Conspiratorial? Have Americans Become More Conspiratorial?
In their new book, Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum argue that a new form of conspiracy thinking is consuming our culture in dangerous and alarming ways. But is it?
Sep 16, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Sophia Rosenfeld
Naomi Klein: ‘We Are Seeing the Beginnings of the Era of Climate Barbarism’ Naomi Klein: ‘We Are Seeing the Beginnings of the Era of Climate Barbarism’
The No Logo author talks about solutions to the climate crisis, Greta Thunberg, birth strikes, and how she finds hope.
Sep 15, 2019 / Natalie Hanman
Puzzle No. 3509 Puzzle No. 3509
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Parts of article used and reused in parallel (6,6) 9 Senior Department of Justice figure in the Obama administrati…
Sep 12, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
One of America’s First Graphic Novels Was by a Blacklisted Socialist One of America’s First Graphic Novels Was by a Blacklisted Socialist
William Gropper’s recently republished 1930 work Alay-Oop is an exciting addition to the comics canon.
Sep 12, 2019 / Jillian Steinhauer
Bless This Mess Bless This Mess
Domestic disruptions in Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go Bernadette and other recent films.
Sep 11, 2019 / Stuart Klawans