Gay Bingo at a Pasadena Animal Shelter Gay Bingo at a Pasadena Animal Shelter
My bingo cards are empty, because I’m not paying attention. I can’t hear the numbers, because something inward is being given substance. Then my mother and father appear in the bin…
Oct 26, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Henri Cole
Puzzle No. 3447 Puzzle No. 3447
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Suffering doubt, I offer more money (6) 5 Enchanting and unusual claim involving silver (7) 10 Mathematician’s rel…
Oct 26, 2017 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Lincoln: The Great Uncompromiser Lincoln: The Great Uncompromiser
He fought to remake the center—not yield to it.
Oct 26, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Matthew Karp
Angela Carter: Breaking the Spell Angela Carter: Breaking the Spell
For the English writer, literature and feminism had the power to upend the fictions that regulate our world
Oct 26, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Namara Smith
Mikhail Gorbachev’s New Thinking Mikhail Gorbachev’s New Thinking
Gorbachev set out to transform the Soviet Union from within. What happened?
Oct 26, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Keith Gessen
In Search of Joni Mitchell In Search of Joni Mitchell
David Yaffe’s new biography doesn’t reach as far into the horizon as Mitchell’s music.
Oct 26, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Syme
What Was It Like to Be Ernest Hemingway? What Was It Like to Be Ernest Hemingway?
The world of the Hemingways rattled with frequent gunfire.
Oct 26, 2017 / Books & the Arts / John Banville
Hillary Clinton’s If-Onlys Hillary Clinton’s If-Onlys
What Happened tells us more about her than about why she lost the election.
Oct 26, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Drew
What the US Can Learn From the Fall of the Roman Republic What the US Can Learn From the Fall of the Roman Republic
Ned Resnikoff interviews author Mike Duncan about how the United States can avoid Rome’s fate.
Oct 24, 2017 / Ned Resnikoff
The Escalating Nuclear Threat Finally Has the Public’s Attention. Now What? The Escalating Nuclear Threat Finally Has the Public’s Attention. Now What?
There is no substitute for our leaders’ coming to the table and beginning a dialogue.
Oct 24, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel