Endgame? Endgame?
How the rhetoric of ecoetiquette muddies writing about global warming.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchard of Lost Souls is a haunting and powerful novel.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
The Birth of Bad Taste The Birth of Bad Taste
Why Italian Mannerists like Rosso Fiorentino were painting’s first avant-garde.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Walking Stick Walking Stick
We didn’t protest. It’s not like you’re going to get anything from anybody. They don’t have it either. And the new system moved pretty quick— I had found a feral walking stick stripped from a tree by a new June shower nursing trumpets of crumbled lilac & held her scarlet eye on the outpatient pharmacy line— If the breadth of the difficulty rejects one ardent name I may still call the hour a phasmid or phantom freely stealing my heart from the other needs that burn it.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Joel Felix
Sweeter Than the Sweet Sweeter Than the Sweet
For the Staple Singers and Stax Records, political engagement flowed from an artistic renaissance.
Jul 2, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Cohen
Letters Letters
Saving the venerable NYPL… cooperation, not capitalism… a jewel in the dross… you could look it up…
Jul 1, 2014 / Our Readers and Ange Mlinko
Puzzle No. 3330 Puzzle No. 3330
And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.
Jul 1, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
‘The Nation’ Welcomes Canada Into Existence… With a Shrug ‘The Nation’ Welcomes Canada Into Existence… With a Shrug
The politicians were happy, if nobody else.
Jul 1, 2014 / Richard Kreitner
After Cory Booker Departs, a Radical Poet’s Son Rises as Mayor of Newark After Cory Booker Departs, a Radical Poet’s Son Rises as Mayor of Newark
Ras Baraka wants to reclaim New Jersey’s largest city from charter schools and Wall Street.
Jul 1, 2014 / Siddhartha Mitter
Low-Wage Workers’ Newest Ally Is a Washington Bureaucrat Low-Wage Workers’ Newest Ally Is a Washington Bureaucrat
“Working people have experienced—for a long time—the diminishment of their voice,” says David Weil, the new director of the Wage and Hour Division at the De...
Jul 1, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter