‘Parasite’ Has Opened American Eyes to South Korea’s Reality

Now we need a film to cut through US myths about the North.

Tim Shorrock

Puzzle No. 3522

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Agnès Varda Had to Fight

Her cinematic archive is a manifesto against complacency.

Max Nelson

Martha Nussbaum Thinks the So-Called Retreat of Liberalism Is an Academic Fad

We talked to the philosopher about her recent book The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal and her thoughts on contemporary global politics.

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

Mikhail Khodorkovsky: the Man, the Myth, the Movie

“It seemed to me that ideologically he [Putin] was one of our people,” the former Russian oligarch says in the new Alex Gibney documentary Citizen K.

Lucy Komisar

Demonize the Eco-Wise

Jen Sorensen

Trump’s Threats to the Iranians

Calvin Trillin

The Nightmare Touched Its Forehead to My Lips

Andres Cerpa

Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide

Martin Luther King Jr. saw something essential about our nation: Imperial expansion west over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.

Greg Grandin

Lauren Wilkinson’s Novel of Race, Empire, and Espionage

American Spy examines the intersections between spycraft and living in America as a black person.

Jennifer Wilson