Ben Lerner’s Quandary Ben Lerner’s Quandary
The Topeka School captures the novelist at a crossroads between politics and aesthetics, fiction and poetry.
Oct 14, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Evan Kindley
The Revolutionary Joy of Trans Life The Revolutionary Joy of Trans Life
Mainstream portrayals of transitioning rarely entertain the possibility that the process can be ecstatic and even amusing. Lou Sullivan’s diaries tells another story.
Oct 9, 2019 / Sasha Geffen
Letters From the October 21, 2019, Issue Letters From the October 21, 2019, Issue
Look again… Blame Merle!… The last dance?…
Oct 8, 2019 / Our Readers
Trump’s Defense Trump’s Defense
The transcript, he says, is the proof The phone call was really all right, Since who would be brazen enough To do something wrong in plain sight? Any guesses?…
Oct 8, 2019 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Untouchables The Untouchables
Nice country you’ve got here. Be a shame if something happened to it.
Oct 8, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow
The Catholic Church at a Crossroads The Catholic Church at a Crossroads
In their new books, Ross Douthat and James Chappel present two radically different versions of Catholicism’s past and future.
Oct 8, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Jan-Werner Müller
Saeed Jones on Queer Masculinity and the Point of Being an Artist Saeed Jones on Queer Masculinity and the Point of Being an Artist
We talked to the writer about his debut memoir How We Fight for Our Lives and his move from poetry to prose.
Oct 7, 2019 / Q&A / Nawal Arjini
The Workers That Built America The Workers That Built America
A new book puts the black working class at the center of American history.
Oct 7, 2019 / Books & the Arts / William P. Jones
Has Capitalism Become Our Religion? Has Capitalism Become Our Religion?
We talk with historian Eugene McCarraher about the myths and rituals of the market, the lost radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the rise of neoliberalism.
Oct 4, 2019 / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins