Between the Old World and the New Between the Old World and the New
On Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole and Patricio Guzmán’s The Cordillera of Dreams.
Feb 7, 2020 / Stuart Klawans
Puzzle No. 3524 Puzzle No. 3524
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Mystery, primarily to a scoundrel: “Am I a nut?” (9) 6 Tailless dog seen east of Georgia range (5) 9 …
Feb 6, 2020 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Stories We Don’t Need to Hear About Doctors and the Ones We Do The Stories We Don’t Need to Hear About Doctors and the Ones We Do
A sequel to the influential but problematic hospital novel House of God shows we need new stories and perspectives about the medical field.
Feb 6, 2020 / Jennifer Bernstein
Newish and Jewish: An Interview With ‘Currents’ Editor Arielle Angel Newish and Jewish: An Interview With ‘Currents’ Editor Arielle Angel
How a revitalized magazine with its roots in American communism captured the Jewish left.
Feb 6, 2020 / Q&A / Sarah M. Seltzer
Expect the Unexpected: On the Music of Hildur Guðnadóttir Expect the Unexpected: On the Music of Hildur Guðnadóttir
Her scores for HBO’s Chernobyl and Todd Phillips’s Joker bring soundtracks into the realm of high art.
Feb 5, 2020 / David Hajdu
Mike Pompeo Implies That a Reporter Who Pressed Him Can’t Locate Ukraine on the Map Mike Pompeo Implies That a Reporter Who Pressed Him Can’t Locate Ukraine on the Map
Mike’s insulting, of course, and quite childish at that. But this might not be labeled a loss If you think of the blunders abroad we’d avoid By imposing such tests on his boss.
Feb 4, 2020 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Folded Note Folded Note
It’s too cold for the first night of a new season. All gone, the neighbors’ cars. Are you alone? Where are they? Perhaps the flight, the one carrying your daughter and wife,…
Feb 4, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Craig Morgan Teicher
After Image After Image
A warm windy day the window sucks in with white curtains. You’ve left me a specter whether trace or double remains to be seen: blurry photo of fog, midnight ti…
Feb 4, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Kate Colby
Kaytranada Captures an Entire Party’s Worth of Sound on ‘Bubba’ Kaytranada Captures an Entire Party’s Worth of Sound on ‘Bubba’
The electronic producer’s new album feels like the full flowering of a major talent.
Feb 4, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen