What Time Is It? Here’s What the 2016 Election Tells Us About Obama, Trump, and What Comes Next What Time Is It? Here’s What the 2016 Election Tells Us About Obama, Trump, and What Comes Next
Political scientist Stephen Skowronek talks about how his theory of the cycles of presidential history explains the campaign’s shocking results.
Nov 22, 2016 / Richard Kreitner
Seeing Mars, Seeing Red Seeing Mars, Seeing Red
As the climate warms and this planet of ours continues sprinting toward extinction, we’re seeing the cultural fixation with Mars take center stage.
Nov 19, 2016 / Sam Sax
The Personal Is Political, But Not Always Fictional The Personal Is Political, But Not Always Fictional
What is the novelist Intizar Husain’s theory of Pakistani history?
Nov 19, 2016 / Ratik Asokan
A Tribe Called Quest: Thank Them for Their Service A Tribe Called Quest: Thank Them for Their Service
The group returned just when we needed it.
Nov 18, 2016 / Marcus J. Moore
‘I Am Interested in Collective Characters’: An Interview With Nanni Balestrini ‘I Am Interested in Collective Characters’: An Interview With Nanni Balestrini
The legendary Italian author speaks with Rachel Kushner.
Nov 17, 2016 / Q&A / Rachel Kushner
Film Noir at Gallop Park, On the Edge Film Noir at Gallop Park, On the Edge
of suburbia in flux behind one of the town’s, count ’em, two mega high schools. The sometimes-tended-to nature preserve where green & green slide crisp between brisk handshakes…
Nov 17, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Marcus Wicker
Puzzle No. 3416 Puzzle No. 3416
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. 1 Astonish an archery aficionado? (4,4) 5 Beetle to injure a butterfly’s head (6) 10 After inauguration, platform for hatre…
Nov 17, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Entering Death, Davy Crockett Remembers a Row of Georgian Trees Entering Death, Davy Crockett Remembers a Row of Georgian Trees
Here someone to talk to would be nice said no one under all these peaches, red and ancient, until each falls the slowest fall the cardinal’s ever witnessed as it cuts through dewy…
Nov 17, 2016 / Books & the Arts / William Brewer
Those Wondrous Powers Those Wondrous Powers
What Arrival offers is so valuable that you might almost choose to pretend that someone knew we were going to need this picture after Trump’s election.
Nov 17, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Criticism in the Twilight Criticism in the Twilight
What role can the critic play in today’s uncertain times?
Nov 16, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Dames