Reverb Reverb
I hate how syntax connects me to shit, or say the day is jeweled and burning, the fires banking, and none of its letters produce the horror at the heart of the index. The old docum…
May 19, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Peter Gizzi
Top of the Agenda Top of the Agenda
What issue’s in the forefront now In Paris, Rome, or Bonn? Could those folks also be obsessed With who can use which john?…
May 19, 2016 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Letters From the June 6-13, 2016, Issue Letters From the June 6-13, 2016, Issue
The article, unfinished…
May 19, 2016 / Our Readers and Barry Schwabsky
Puzzle No. 3399 Puzzle No. 3399
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Davis and Tatum, circling a piano at a great distance (5,5) 6 Swindle results from reverse-engineered computers (4…
May 19, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
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These lost stars tomorrow will they be there when we wake in our sorrow, is it us so lost in the moment, is it today we look to flower If it were because the time we saw and…
May 19, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Peter Gizzi
Benedict Anderson’s View of Nationalism Benedict Anderson’s View of Nationalism
The child of late empire, who transformed the field of area studies, lived a life beyond boundaries.
May 19, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman
In Cosmopolitan Vienna, It’s Easy to Miss the Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Surging Across Austria In Cosmopolitan Vienna, It’s Easy to Miss the Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Surging Across Austria
Even conservative Austrians want a generous welfare state—but, increasingly, they don’t want it for new arrivals.
May 19, 2016 / Column / Katha Pollitt
The Future of Fossil-Fuel Divestment The Future of Fossil-Fuel Divestment
It’s an age-old tension between radicalism and reform made more urgent by the existential threat of climate change.
May 18, 2016 / StudentNation / Chloe Maxmin
Iraqi Kurdish Leader Calls for Redrawing Regional Borders—And Attacks Fellow Kurds Iraqi Kurdish Leader Calls for Redrawing Regional Borders—And Attacks Fellow Kurds
Massoud Barzani praises Turkey’s authoritarian leader but has harsh words for the Turkish PKK and its Syrian Kurdish offshoot.
May 18, 2016 / Roy Gutman