Puzzle No. 3477 Puzzle No. 3477
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Someone who brought Oscar home protects distressed Grouch with prayer (10) 6 Cautious women, we hear, concea…
Sep 27, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Andrew Bujalski’s Strip-Mall Realism Andrew Bujalski’s Strip-Mall Realism
In Support the Girls, the filmmaker offers us warmhearted comedy about coping with the intolerable.
Sep 27, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Odyssey of Seymour Hersh The Odyssey of Seymour Hersh
The legendary reporter and the ambiguities of investigative reporting.
Sep 27, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Michael Massing
Rachel Cusk’s Struggle to Break Free Rachel Cusk’s Struggle to Break Free
In her Outline trilogy, the English novelist finds a freedom in art that she cannot locate in life.
Sep 27, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Maggie Doherty
Is France Finally Reckoning With Its Brutal Past? Is France Finally Reckoning With Its Brutal Past?
Macron's acknowledgement of French torture during the Algerian war was unprecedented—but what comes next?
Sep 18, 2018 / Karina Piser
Want to Defend Democracy? Start With Your Public Library. Want to Defend Democracy? Start With Your Public Library.
Public libraries are critical within the public sphere and, when fully supported, represent the best of government at work.
Sep 18, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Fandango Doctrine The Fandango Doctrine
On using the arts to restore the amity and goodwill among people on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
Sep 17, 2018 / Kabir Sehgal
What the Black Dolls Say What the Black Dolls Say
These rare survivors of early African-American art can illuminate much about our difficult history.
Sep 17, 2018 / Elizabeth Pochoda
John Dower in Conversation: Part II John Dower in Conversation: Part II
A preeminent scholar on the Pacific War uses WWII-era Japan to examine race and US imperialism today.
Sep 17, 2018 / Q&A / Patrick Lawrence
White House Revelations White House Revelations
It’s all just a plot by the “deep state,” he says, To bring down a man who they always have hated. These leakers of course were appointed by him. He faces a deep state that he has…
Sep 14, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin