What to Do When Art Leaves You Speechless What to Do When Art Leaves You Speechless
Optic Nerve, the debut novel from Argentine writer María Gainza, is an exquisite and intimate look into one person’s idiosyncratic vision of art history.
Apr 8, 2019 / Dustin Illingworth
Eric Hobsbawm’s Many Lefts Eric Hobsbawm’s Many Lefts
How the historian’s tumultuous life in the 20th century remade his politics.
Apr 8, 2019 / Books & the Arts / David Marcus
The Widening Rift Between the US and China The Widening Rift Between the US and China
Worsening relations between the two largest economies in the world could lead to disaster.
Apr 8, 2019 / Feature / John Feffer
Who’s Going to Tell Trump? Who’s Going to Tell Trump?
Breaking: A report from inside the White House reveals infighting among advisers, consternation over Norwegian socialism, and the importance of chocolate milkshakes.
Apr 4, 2019 / Calvin Trillin
Angel-Ho Is the Future of Pop Music Angel-Ho Is the Future of Pop Music
The Cape Town artist’s daring new album Death Becomes Her upends the language and conventions of pop pleasure.
Apr 4, 2019 / Sasha Geffen
Odd Reasoning Odd Reasoning
“Trump to cut millions in aid to 3 Central American countries.” —The Washington Post The surge of migrants comes from countries where Conditions are, to say the least, adverse. So…
Apr 4, 2019 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Puzzle No. 3495 Puzzle No. 3495
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Actress putting lettuce in canned stew (7,6) 9 Phosphorus and others make up part of a flower (5) 10 TV personalit…
Apr 4, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Houston You Don’t Know The Houston You Don’t Know
Bryan Washington’s short-story collection Lot is a loving, multifaceted picture of a Texas metropolis in flux.
Apr 2, 2019 / Bradley Babendir
What Fracking Has Wrought What Fracking Has Wrought
Eliza Griswold’s new book, Amity And Prosperity, examines the high human and environmental costs of natural gas extraction in two Pennsylvania towns.
Apr 2, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Jones
When Socialism Was Tried in America—and Was a Smashing Success When Socialism Was Tried in America—and Was a Smashing Success
For much of the 20th century, Milwaukee was run by socialists—and Time magazine called it “one of the best-run cities in the U.S.”
Apr 2, 2019 / John Nichols