Choose Your Life Choose Your Life
Either an intruder’s in the house or I’m shopping online. An intruder or stargazer lilies in a vase. A noise my body makes. My body in a different room. Yesterday we played I was…
Mar 3, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Steve Healey
The Protests That Made and Unmade Japan’s Postwar Left The Protests That Made and Unmade Japan’s Postwar Left
The demonstrations against the Anpo treaty remain the largest protest movement in Japanese history and yet their defeat cleared the path for decades of conservative rule.
Mar 3, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Colin Jones
What Does Hollywood Lose When It Works With China? What Does Hollywood Lose When It Works With China?
They may fight over censorship and trade, but the biggest players all want the same thing: movies that make as much money as possible.
Mar 3, 2020 / Phoebe Chen
Jenny Offill’s Novel of Climate Dread Jenny Offill’s Novel of Climate Dread
In Weather, Offill is reluctant to offer false comfort, but she does ask us if worrying is enough.
Mar 2, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Tony Tulathimutte
Why ‘You’ Is So Terrifying Why ‘You’ Is So Terrifying
The Netflix show turns Internet obsession and the need for attention when we’re online all the time into a horror story.
Mar 2, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
Reading Richard Rorty in Tehran Reading Richard Rorty in Tehran
What the American philosopher’s visit to Tehran in 2004 can teach us about Iranian society—and our own.
Feb 28, 2020 / Samuel Thrope
Puzzle No. 3526 Puzzle No. 3526
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Name one independent state in the Middle East (5) 4 Showed compassion in play about decent orchestra space (4,4) …
Feb 27, 2020 / Crossword / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Chicago Police Department’s History of Torture The Chicago Police Department’s History of Torture
Laurence Ralph’s The Torture Letters recounts an extensive history of police abuse and violence in the CPD.
Feb 27, 2020 / Ed Burmila
WWII’s Refugee Academics and the Myth of a Welcoming American Academy WWII’s Refugee Academics and the Myth of a Welcoming American Academy
Laurel Leff’s Well Worth Saving looks at the lives of Jewish professors who sought asylum in the United States and were denied entry.
Feb 26, 2020 / Hannah Stamler
Traitor, Scourge, Prophet: Larry Kramer’s Acerbic Alternate History Traitor, Scourge, Prophet: Larry Kramer’s Acerbic Alternate History
His two-volume novel, The American People, is a nearly 1,700-page phantasmagoria that reimagines the nation’s history as a sordid queer saga, climaxing with the AIDS crisis.
Feb 25, 2020 / Jeremy Lybarger