The Sentence The Sentence
In the gospel according to children Love is a sentence containing a logic no syntax can trace— Mom throwing parties just to ruin them, Dad blaming everyone but himself. You remembe…
Mar 16, 2021 / Poems / Rob Schlegel
How Black Women Musicians Defined What We Call Culture How Black Women Musicians Defined What We Call Culture
A conversation with Daphne Brooks about her new book Liner Notes for the Revolution, a “counterhistory of popular music criticism.”
Mar 15, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Nawal Arjini
In the Vicinity of Genius In the Vicinity of Genius
How a friendship with Glenn Gould created an unlikely cultural critic.
Mar 12, 2021 / Jeet Heer
Vivian Gornick in Reverse Vivian Gornick in Reverse
A conversation with the writer about her life and work.
Mar 11, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
Book of Dolls 46; Book of Dolls 48 Book of Dolls 46; Book of Dolls 48
46 The gods who made me small wer…
Mar 11, 2021 / Poems / Bruce Bond
On Shame and Healing On Shame and Healing
The truths that lie beneath our loneliest year.
Mar 10, 2021 / Rhea Boyd
Harvard’s History of Inscrutable Tenure Denials Harvard’s History of Inscrutable Tenure Denials
Cornel West is only the latest scholar of color the ultra-elite institution has failed to hold on to.
Mar 9, 2021 / StudentNation / Julia Lieblich
The Cat in the Tinfoil Hat The Cat in the Tinfoil Hat
Never take away a 50-year-old baby’s favorite toys.
Mar 9, 2021 / Tom Tomorrow
The Future of Postcolonial Thought The Future of Postcolonial Thought
A pair of books—one by Walter Mignolo and Catherine Walsh, another by Achille Mbembe—consider the unfulfilled promise of decolonization.
Mar 9, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Arjun Appadurai
Letters From the March 22/29, 2021, Issue Letters From the March 22/29, 2021, Issue
Time to choose again… The rule of lawbreakers… Hitchens and faith…
Mar 9, 2021 / Our Readers