Owen Fiss and the Liberal Legal Tradition

The legal theorist’s case for how the Constitution can be a vehicle for civil rights and social justice.

David Cole

Angela Carter: Breaking the Spell

For the English writer, literature and feminism had the power to upend the fictions that regulate our world

Namara Smith

Mikhail Gorbachev’s New Thinking

Gorbachev set out to transform the Soviet Union from within. What happened?

Keith Gessen

Hillary Clinton’s If-Onlys

What Happened tells us more about her than about why she lost the election.

Elizabeth Drew

What Was It Like to Be Ernest Hemingway?

The world of the Hemingways rattled with frequent gunfire.

John Banville

Lincoln: The Great Uncompromiser

He fought to remake the center—not yield to it.

Matthew Karp

In Search of Joni Mitchell

David Yaffe’s new biography doesn’t reach as far into the horizon as Mitchell’s music.

Rachel Syme

Gay Bingo at a Pasadena Animal Shelter

Henri Cole