Olga Ravn’s Office Novel in Space Olga Ravn’s Office Novel in Space
The Employees offers a surreal and biting account of all the hazards and indignities of the contemporary workplace.
May 18, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jessica Loudis
Currency Communion Currency Communion
the first time i ever read the word God was on a piece of money We The People every time i dug in my denims i was uprooting evil * i can make any color out of concrete if yo…
May 17, 2022 / Poems / Eduardo “Echo” Martinez
How Economic Sanctions Shaped Today’s Global Powers How Economic Sanctions Shaped Today’s Global Powers
A conversation with Nicholas Mulder on the evolution and history of sanctions, his new book The Economic Weapon, and the role sanctions play after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
May 17, 2022 / Q&A / Pablo Pryluka
To the Hypocrite Go the Spoils To the Hypocrite Go the Spoils
Mitch McConnell refused to schedule hearings on the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on the novel rationale that a presidential election was too close, and he the…
May 17, 2022 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Sea According to Rachel Carson The Sea According to Rachel Carson
Her first three books were odes to the world’s bodies of water and their creative power over all life forms.
May 17, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
The British Empire’s Worldwide Devastation The British Empire’s Worldwide Devastation
Caroline Elkins’s new history of the British Empire is a damning account of its violent crimes against its subjects.
May 16, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French
“The New York Times” Has Badly Lost Its Bearings “The New York Times” Has Badly Lost Its Bearings
Its next editor, Joe Kahn, needs to get it back on course.
May 13, 2022 / Dan Froomkin
Farewell to Midge Decter, the Bigot on the Beach Farewell to Midge Decter, the Bigot on the Beach
The obituaries for the founding mother of neoconservatism fail to give a sense of how vile her opinions really were.
May 13, 2022 / Jeet Heer
Florine Stettheimer, Insider Artist Florine Stettheimer, Insider Artist
Barbara Bloemink’s biography paints a complicated picture of an artist whose work both celebrated and critiqued the upper echelons of early-20th-century cultural life.
May 12, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Max Pearl
Civic Engagement In an Age of Perpetual War Civic Engagement In an Age of Perpetual War
A conversation with Phil Klay about his new book Uncertain Ground and the moral imperatives and ambiguities of civilian life amidst constant conflict.
May 11, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Noah Flora