Social Media Can’t Replace Social Infrastructure Social Media Can’t Replace Social Infrastructure
The library, not Facebook, is the primary institution promoting literacy and providing Internet access to those who have no other way to get online.
May 2, 2019 / Between Us, We Cover the World / Eric Klinenberg
Zelensky’s Victory Zelensky’s Victory
A brash comedian will lead Ukraine. He won the presidential vote hands down. Among world leaders, this may be a first, Although our leader’s often called a clown.
May 2, 2019 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The President Tweets His Millionth Lie The President Tweets His Millionth Lie
May 2, 2019 / Comix Nation / Peter Kuper
How Jayson Greene Wrote One of the Year’s Most Affecting Memoirs How Jayson Greene Wrote One of the Year’s Most Affecting Memoirs
Once More We Saw Stars, which follows his family after the death of his daughter Greta, is at once an elegy, a raw outcry of rage, and a meditation on relearning to live and work i...
May 2, 2019 / Nathan Goldman
Puzzle No. 3499 Puzzle No. 3499
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 and 4A The French woman is skeptical about the French attorney’s pairs, four of which are displayed in this diagram…
May 2, 2019 / Crossword / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Carlos Bulosan’s 1946 Novel About Filipino Migrant Workers Is Still Groundbreaking Carlos Bulosan’s 1946 Novel About Filipino Migrant Workers Is Still Groundbreaking
When we read a book like America Is in the Heart, we have the chance to be not just readers of American history’s horrors, but its witnesses and inheritors.
May 1, 2019 / Elaine Castillo
Saidiya Hartman’s Astounding History of the Forgotten Sexual Modernists in 20th-Century Black Life Saidiya Hartman’s Astounding History of the Forgotten Sexual Modernists in 20th-Century Black Life
In her new book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, she looks at everyday life for urban black women and in the process pioneers a stirring new way to write history.
May 1, 2019 / Sam Huber
Ilhan Omar vs. the Outrage Machine Ilhan Omar vs. the Outrage Machine
No observation goes unpunished.
Apr 30, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow
Can Humanitarianism Address Inequality? Can Humanitarianism Address Inequality?
In his new book, French anthropologist Didier Fassin argues that if humanitarians are to save life they need to rethink the global structures that sustain it.
Apr 30, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins
At the Frontiers of Surveillance Capitalism At the Frontiers of Surveillance Capitalism
Silicon Valley firms don’t want to simply monitor your behavior; they plan to shape it, too.
Apr 30, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Katie Fitzpatrick