Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Sweeping Anti-War Novel
Your Name Here dramatizes the tensions and possibilities of political art.
Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jess Bergman
The Fierce and Joyous Face of LA Resistance The Fierce and Joyous Face of LA Resistance
What we can learn from a great American city’s refusal to bend to Trump’s invasion.
Dec 16, 2025 / Feature / Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Nichols
The Supreme Court v. My Mother The Supreme Court v. My Mother
After my mother escaped the Holocaust, she broke the law to save her family. Her immigration story is more pertinent today than ever before.
Dec 13, 2025 / Leo Treitler
The Slop of Things to Come The Slop of Things to Come
This past week boasted many overhyped AI breakthroughs, but the healthiest one was the fierce repudiation of a contemptuous McDonald’s ad.
Dec 12, 2025 / Matt Alston
Does Russian Feminism Have a Future? Does Russian Feminism Have a Future?
A Russian feminist reflects on Julia Ioffe’s history of modern Russia.
Dec 10, 2025 / Nadezhda Azhgikhina
One Buyout After Another One Buyout After Another
The multibillion-dollar takeover bids targeting Warner Bros. Discovery show how Trump’s corrupt model of governance-by-payback could destroy Hollywood.
Dec 10, 2025 / Ben Schwartz
Forrest Gander’s Desert Phenomenology Forrest Gander’s Desert Phenomenology
His poems bridge the gap between nature’s wild expanse and the private space of one’s imagination.
Dec 9, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Bailey Trela
Capitalism’s Toxic Nature Capitalism’s Toxic Nature
A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nat...
Dec 8, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Solvej Balle and the Tyranny of Time Solvej Balle and the Tyranny of Time
The Danish novelist’s septology, On the Calculation of Volume, asks what fiction can explore when you remove one of its key characteristics—the idea of time itself.
Dec 4, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Dilara O’Neil