Ling Ma’s Disaster Fiction Ling Ma’s Disaster Fiction
Part sci-fi thriller, part genre-fiction, Severance follows a millennial New Yorker’s struggle to survive.
Oct 2, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Larissa Pham
A Very ‘Shouty’ Judicial Committee Hearing A Very ‘Shouty’ Judicial Committee Hearing
So many loud, angry men.
Oct 2, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow
Trump on Reporting a Sexual Assault Trump on Reporting a Sexual Assault
She didn’t file a police report When claims were fresh and could be tracked. And, by the way, the same is true Of all those chicks that I attacked.
Sep 27, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Odyssey of Seymour Hersh The Odyssey of Seymour Hersh
The legendary reporter and the ambiguities of investigative reporting.
Sep 27, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Michael Massing
Rachel Cusk’s Struggle to Break Free Rachel Cusk’s Struggle to Break Free
In her Outline trilogy, the English novelist finds a freedom in art that she cannot locate in life.
Sep 27, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Maggie Doherty
Is France Finally Reckoning With Its Brutal Past? Is France Finally Reckoning With Its Brutal Past?
Macron's acknowledgement of French torture during the Algerian war was unprecedented—but what comes next?
Sep 18, 2018 / Karina Piser
Want to Defend Democracy? Start With Your Public Library. Want to Defend Democracy? Start With Your Public Library.
Public libraries are critical within the public sphere and, when fully supported, represent the best of government at work.
Sep 18, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What the Black Dolls Say What the Black Dolls Say
These rare survivors of early African-American art can illuminate much about our difficult history.
Sep 17, 2018 / Elizabeth Pochoda
John Dower in Conversation: Part II John Dower in Conversation: Part II
A preeminent scholar on the Pacific War uses WWII-era Japan to examine race and US imperialism today.
Sep 17, 2018 / Q&A / Patrick Lawrence