Puzzle No. 3409 Puzzle No. 3409
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. 1 Spanish dessert for 24A (5) 4 Plant finishes off beneath one particular shrub (4) 6 Wise person’s 4A (4) 9 A head in Eu…
Sep 29, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
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