The Virtues of Difficult Fiction The Virtues of Difficult Fiction
If novels aren’t worthy challenges, we have no reason to linger in their pages.
Jul 30, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Scott
The Lament of John Kasich The Lament of John Kasich
In polls your announcement should give you a bump. But mine was drowned out by that blustering Trump. The timing of this has me really quite vexed. Will I be upstaged by Kardashi…
Jul 30, 2015 / Calvin Trillin
Why Donald Trump Is Winning Why Donald Trump Is Winning
No candidate more shamelessly caters to the conservative paranoid style than “The Donald.”
Jul 30, 2015 / The Editors
Ferlinghetti in June Ferlinghetti in June
Writing Across the Landscape collects the poet’s travel diaries—which, he says, “may pass as news stories filed by a reporter from Outer Space.”
Jul 30, 2015 / Feature / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
at the estuary at the estuary
sandlings dig bait, tailgate the first ripple of a returning tide a mercury whisper of tipped-in light rushed in, in front of itself; swirls of wrung-out rags, scrow clouds scuffed…
Jul 30, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Tom Pickard
Elements of Style Elements of Style
The legendary Balanchine dancer Violette Verdy embodies the alchemy that turns music into meaning.
Jul 30, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss
Puzzle No. 3370 Puzzle No. 3370
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Prepare cured eel’s head to lose weight (6) 4 Give a hearing to a scrappy Native American (6) 10 Doc [that’s what…
Jul 30, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Chucky Taylor, Liberia’s Other Monster Chucky Taylor, Liberia’s Other Monster
The fate of Liberia was ensnared by uniquely American pathologies.
Jul 30, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Leaf
Letters From the August 17-24, 2015, Issue Letters From the August 17-24, 2015, Issue
Bad weather, useful idiots, the oily truth, telling privilege…
Jul 30, 2015 / Our Readers
Paul Beatty’s Savage Satire Paul Beatty’s Savage Satire
The Sellout takes aim at black middle-class foibles and fantasies.
Jul 30, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jesse McCarthy