Tina Fey Goes for Drama Tina Fey Goes for Drama
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a movie with neither highs nor lows.
Mar 3, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Ms. Grief Ms. Grief
Out of two new books, Constance Fenimore Woolson emerges as a figure of some dimension in her own right.
Mar 3, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Puzzle No. 3393 Puzzle No. 3393
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 5 We’re crazy about Virgin Islands magazine (6) 10 A parrot states: “In the Northeast and the West, work!” (5) 11 …
Mar 3, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Rhythm, Water, and Global Blackness Rhythm, Water, and Global Blackness
Whether it is in New Orleans, Gaza, Basra, Massawa, or Mogadishu, often where there are ports, there are battles for control over identity.
Mar 2, 2016 / Kristina Kay Robinson
Cairo: A Museum of Ghosts Cairo: A Museum of Ghosts
A visit to the Egyptian capital while government crackdowns are forcing many of its writers and artists to find a way out.
Mar 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ursula Lindsey
It’s Time to Kick Israel Out of Soccer It’s Time to Kick Israel Out of Soccer
As we said for South Africa, “No normal sport in an abnormal society.” The idea has already rattled Israeli diplomats.
Mar 1, 2016 / Sean Jacobs and Aubrey Bloomfield
Father’s One Regret Father’s One Regret
Life’s too short to spend wisely.
Mar 1, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow
Bernie Sanders Is Confronting America’s Foreign Policy Amnesia Head-On Bernie Sanders Is Confronting America’s Foreign Policy Amnesia Head-On
Why is no one else talking about the fact that Hillary Clinton has been endorsed by a war criminal?
Feb 29, 2016 / Greg Grandin
What the Academy Awards Tell Us About the Value of Black Work What the Academy Awards Tell Us About the Value of Black Work
The Oscars aren’t just a competition for cultural value: They double as an assessment tool that helps pick the industry’s economic winners and losers.
Feb 26, 2016 / Michael J. Brewer
Jacqueline Susann’s Queer Feminism Jacqueline Susann’s Queer Feminism
How does Valley of the Dolls actually hold up as a read 50 years later?
Feb 26, 2016 / Tim Murphy