Life and Death in Brownback’s Kansas Life and Death in Brownback’s Kansas
Twenty-one states have refused to expand Medicaid, leaving millions of sick Americans without decent healthcare.
Jun 2, 2015 / Feature / Kai Wright
Ecuador’s Battle for Environmental Justice Against Chevron Ecuador’s Battle for Environmental Justice Against Chevron
For more than two decades, impoverished indigenous people have been seeking restitution from the oil giant for polluting their region.
Jun 2, 2015 / Feature / James North
Who Killed Public Housing in New Orleans? Who Killed Public Housing in New Orleans?
After Hurricane Katrina, big developers, government bureaucrats and anti-housing ideologues pushed to destroy “Bricks.”
Jun 2, 2015 / Feature / Roberta Brandes Gratz
How Obama Went From Being a Peace Candidate to a War President How Obama Went From Being a Peace Candidate to a War President
Critics call him timid, but the president’s foreign policy has often been too aggressive—even at the risk of our long-term national interests.
Jun 2, 2015 / Feature / Sherle R. Schwenninger
Delmore’s Way Delmore’s Way
How the stormy eloquence of Delmore Schwartz made possible the glittering prose of Saul Bellow.
Jun 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
An Experimental Life An Experimental Life
Sonia Delaunay breathed art like others lived alcohol or crime.
Jun 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Twin Twin
He resembled me. I held him up to my lips, then threw him into the salty water. He sank to the bottom. I heard a giggle. An invitation to play together. (Translated from the Polish by Piotr Gwiazda)
Jun 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Grzegorz Wróblewski
Finding Nearly Forgotten Music Finding Nearly Forgotten Music
Why the musician and filmmaker John Cohen still thinks that true objectivity is an elusive beast.
Jun 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Pocock
Zero Visibility Zero Visibility
He moves in front of me. I can hear words… A prayer? A snake bite? I enter a fog tunnel. The guide falls silent. No way back. I grope my way forward. (Life is unbearable.) (Translated from the Polish by Piotr Gwiazda)
Jun 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Grzegorz Wróblewski
Letters Letters
Arendt in dark times; literature in ones and zeros; the PEN Badge of courage; that’s the ticket…
Jun 2, 2015 / Our Readers