Trump Reveals His Real Reason for Having Suleimani Killed Trump Reveals His Real Reason for Having Suleimani Killed
“Trump, former aides said, has burned with a desire to erase Obama’s foreign policy legacy and prove himself a superior Commander-in-Chief.” —The Washington Post I couldn’t abide o…
Jan 14, 2020 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Opinion Opinion
It was a lean-to one could live in so long as it never rained. It was a grain of salt close up, looking like a crystal, growing from itself like an outcrop of land. I…
Jan 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Militello
Formalwear Formalwear
“everything takes form, even infinity” —Gaston Bachelard, from The Dialectics of Outside and Inside So I died. Then I filled out a form. It asked how I made do & a living &…
Jan 14, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Devon Walker-Figueroa
Letters From the January 27, 2020, Issue Letters From the January 27, 2020, Issue
Old struggle, new politics… For shame… The truth about these truths… The collective is political…
Jan 14, 2020 / Our Readers
A Short History of Minimalism A Short History of Minimalism
Donald Judd, Richard Wollheim, and the origins of what we now describe as minimalist.
Jan 14, 2020 / Kyle Chayka
The Journalism of Gabriel García Márquez The Journalism of Gabriel García Márquez
His fiction and nonfiction can be seen as facets of a single, lifelong narrative enterprise.
Jan 13, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Tony Wood
The ‘Revolution of ’89’ Did Not Initiate a New Era of History The ‘Revolution of ’89’ Did Not Initiate a New Era of History
Though significant, the end of the Cold War ranks well below the fall of Russia’s Romanov dynasty (1917) or the discovery of penicillin (1928) as a turning point in the history of ...
Jan 13, 2020 / Andrew J. Bacevich
This Is What It Means to Spend a Life Resisting Israeli Injustice This Is What It Means to Spend a Life Resisting Israeli Injustice
An interview with the director of Advocate, the Oscar-shortlisted film about the Israeli lawyer dedicated to defending Palestinians.
Jan 10, 2020 / Mairav Zonszein
Puzzle No. 3520 Puzzle No. 3520
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle.1 ACROSS2 1 Coordinate pretty nice permutation (1-9)3 6 Crow in second-rate newspaper (4)4 10 Mythical creature’s simple gar…
Jan 9, 2020 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Letters Behind One of American Poetry’s Most Infamous Books The Letters Behind One of American Poetry’s Most Infamous Books
The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979, which collects the correspondence between Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell, is an extraordinary philosophical inquiry into what is permissible i...
Jan 8, 2020 / Dustin Illingworth