An Opera of Permanent Catastrophe, and of Hope An Opera of Permanent Catastrophe, and of Hope
A new production of Alban Berg’s Lulu reveals the explosive powers still manifest in modern art.
Dec 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Peter E. Gordon
Voting Rights and the Second Redemption Voting Rights and the Second Redemption
Ari Berman’s Give Us the Ballot argues that democratic rights can never be taken for granted.
Dec 3, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Border Characters Border Characters
The Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera talks about the first English translation of one of his novels, the Mexica afterlife, and Dante.
Dec 2, 2015 / Aaron Bady
Flattened for a Price Flattened for a Price
In her new book The Cosmopolites, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian explores the evolution of citizenship and the rise of a new form of statelessness.
Dec 2, 2015 / Fatima Bhutto
Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, and the Complex Landscape of Race Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, and the Complex Landscape of Race
The debates over Wilson’s legacy ought to push us to initiate even broader conversations about the presence and power of the past in daily life.
Dec 1, 2015 / Martha A. Sandweiss
November 28, 1960: Richard Wright Dies November 28, 1960: Richard Wright Dies
“Mr. Wright’s style often reminds one of a stream ‘riled’ by a heavy storm.”
Nov 28, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Conductor of the Anonymous Conductor of the Anonymous
In her oral histories, Svetlana Alexievich orchestrates the voices of Russians trying to reconcile the irreconciliable.
Nov 25, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Sophie Benech
Real, Realist, Realistic, and False Real, Realist, Realistic, and False
Linda Rosenkrantz’s 1968 quasi-novel Talk reminds us that wry self-awareness and anxious fragility are hardly millennial inventions.
Nov 25, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Becca Rothfeld
Letters From the December 14, 2015, Issue Letters From the December 14, 2015, Issue
Sanders, Denmark, and Debs… tourists at the end of life… all that jive… food for the mind… one side of the story…
Nov 25, 2015 / Our Readers