Letters From the October 10, 2016, Issue Letters From the October 10, 2016, Issue
So much for this magazine… The panic boom… Redoing the House—and Senate… Teach your children well… A real puzzle…
Sep 22, 2016 / Our Readers
Puzzle No. 3408 Puzzle No. 3408
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Sponsor protects maladjusted cop (9) 6 Notable France-Lebanon connection (5) 9 What a child might say in a game a…
Sep 22, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Seeing David Hammons Seeing David Hammons
Given that the artist is such a spectral presence, how can his multifarious oeuvre be summed up in a single retrospective survey?
Sep 21, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ Is a Horror Movie—and the Monster Is Our National Security State Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ Is a Horror Movie—and the Monster Is Our National Security State
For Trump to have these instruments of power would be a catastrophe.
Sep 19, 2016 / Juan Cole
Diamond-Dust Baroque Diamond-Dust Baroque
The Get Down, Baz Luhrman’s fairy-tale remix of the birth of hip hop, offers a glimpse of the beginning of the end of US power.
Sep 15, 2016 / Joshua Clover
Oliver Stone: Edward Snowden Has Done Something ‘Quite Amazing’ Oliver Stone: Edward Snowden Has Done Something ‘Quite Amazing’
Stone on his new Snowden biopic, Dave Zirin on Colin Kaepernick, and Margo Jefferson on Negroland.
Sep 15, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
How Did a Nuclear Warhead End Up Lying in a Ditch in Arkansas? How Did a Nuclear Warhead End Up Lying in a Ditch in Arkansas?
The documentary Command and Control shows just how horrifyingly vulnerable we are to errors involving nuclear weapons.
Sep 13, 2016 / William D. Hartung
John Berger: The Human, the Artist John Berger: The Human, the Artist
In The Seasons in Quincy, we learn little about the former and attempts to celebrate the latter collapse into the elegiac.
Sep 12, 2016 / Anakwa Dwamena
Puzzle No. 3407 Puzzle No. 3407
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 They are needed to be a surgeon, or a race-car driver? (4,5,6) 9 Unsophisticated woman rebuilt engine around the m…
Sep 8, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Virtue of Patience The Virtue of Patience
It has taken a lifetime of reading, writing, and drawing for Daniel Clowes to achieve the creative maturity on display in his new book.
Sep 8, 2016 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu