Domino Effect Domino Effect
For an erection lasting more than four hours tell him you don’t agree with him. The most desirable of her pots authored a vast intelligence. Don’t make me sick of this, followed ev…
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / John Ashbery
Freud’s Discontents Freud’s Discontents
Why did one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers fade from significance?
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
The Overhead The Overhead
For two decades we kept Mum in the attic. Finally, one hubba hubba day in spring we let her out to walk in the park. She was never seen again. The police refused to inspect the par…
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / John Ashbery
Baby Hamlet Baby Hamlet
Ian McEwan’s latest novel returns to a recurring theme—the breakup of the modern family.
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Biggs
Haiti’s Jacobin Haiti’s Jacobin
A new biography explores the mysterious life and times of Toussaint Louverture.
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell
Working-Class New Yorkers Are in Danger of Going Extinct. So Is Our Accent. Working-Class New Yorkers Are in Danger of Going Extinct. So Is Our Accent.
I’m a proud, fifth-generation New Yorker with a strong outer-borough brogue. I’m also probably the last.
Nov 1, 2016 / Tara Clancy
This Is Not the First Time the FBI Has Interfered With a Presidential Election This Is Not the First Time the FBI Has Interfered With a Presidential Election
Throughout his career, J. Edgar Hoover used the bureau to meddle in presidential politics and secure his own power.
Oct 31, 2016 / Jeff Kisseloff
Puzzle No. 3413 Puzzle No. 3413
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 An English seductress might know what makes this something for your lips (9) 6 One radical restrains really, reall…
Oct 27, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Twenty-Four Hours From Home Twenty-Four Hours From Home
Where, Ms. Bishop, should the boy and I be today? All precedent’s out of the question, the question out of something like itself but lacking answer. What we have here’s here as if…
Oct 27, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Graham Foust
Letters From the November 14, 2016, Issue Letters From the November 14, 2016, Issue
The art of words… Words are her matter… Live by shame, die by shame… Carré’d away…
Oct 27, 2016 / Our Readers