Will Catalonia Secede From Spain? Will Catalonia Secede From Spain?
Catalans are fed up with Madrid’s austerity and corruption—making November’s referendum nonbinding has only postponed the confrontation.
Oct 21, 2014 / Feature / Andy Robinson
Comix Nation Comix Nation
Oct 21, 2014 / Jen Sorensen
Snapshot: Breaking Through the Storm Snapshot: Breaking Through the Storm
A Kurd displays a victory sign at a refugee camp in southeastern Turkey, where tens of thousands have fled the intense fighting in Kobani, Syria. In addition to aerial bombardment, US military planes dropped medical gear, weapons and ammunition for Kurdish fighters fending off a prolonged siege by ISIS fighters.
Oct 21, 2014 / Kai Pfaffenbach
Poly, NYU’s Latest Global Venture in Building ‘Innovation’ on the Backs of Low-wage Workers Poly, NYU’s Latest Global Venture in Building ‘Innovation’ on the Backs of Low-wage Workers
NYU’s Polytechnic School of Engineering or “Poly” facilitates innovation through exploitation of graduate student labor.
Oct 21, 2014 / StudentNation / Lily Defriend, Gisselle Cunningham, and StudentNation
Should Chuck Todd Be ‘Disqualified’ for Saying the Midterm Elections Don’t Matter? Should Chuck Todd Be ‘Disqualified’ for Saying the Midterm Elections Don’t Matter?
Should the guy moderating a Senate election debate think that the midterm Senate elections are important?
Oct 21, 2014 / Leslie Savan
‘With This Madness, What Art Could There Be?’ ‘With This Madness, What Art Could There Be?’
An Armenian-American writer asks if the Armenian obsession with genocide recognition is worth its emotional and psychological price.
Oct 21, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Meline Toumani
Pictures of Icarus Pictures of Icarus
With his cutouts, Henri Matisse tried to free himself from gravity.
Oct 21, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
What Are Movies Good For? What Are Movies Good For?
Awakening a sense of wonder and flooding a cinema with crucial realities.
Oct 21, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Summer Leaves The Summer Leaves
nothing unscathed. Desires, once tender stalks, grow brittle; the first and clear-eyed dew that clung thereto expires. The summer leaves—the trees’ dense growth—that, dying little by little, turn red, brown, go down and down and these still leaves long winds will shake and put me on my mettle— here, rusted as dead blood, there, bright, my good— both make the most of light. And then, as, torn, the leaves resettle, and the heart, ravaged, grieves, the summer leaves again.
Oct 21, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Catherine Breese Davis
Letters Letters
Enlightenment fanboys… we are funding football… ‘And gladly teche…’
Oct 21, 2014 / Our Readers