Letters From the October 21, 2019, Issue Letters From the October 21, 2019, Issue
Look again… Blame Merle!… The last dance?…
Oct 8, 2019 / Letters / Our Readers
Tenderness Tenderness
That summer I was a body. I was that body. The Body. Overnight, a fog of linen inside the mauve Victorian down the block. Another house empty for the season, for the season, for th…
Oct 8, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Derrick Austin
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
A Long Journey Through the Ruins of Capitalism and the Cosmos A Long Journey Through the Ruins of Capitalism and the Cosmos
On Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, Brad Pitt’s astronaut adventures in Ad Astra, and more.
Oct 8, 2019 / Stuart Klawans
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 / Hard Paywall / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins