Puzzle No. 3465 Puzzle No. 3465
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Provide food and support for insect (11) 7 Partner’s half of counterrevolution (5) 8 Where celebrities are…
Apr 26, 2018 / Crossword / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Alfred Döblin’s Hard-boiled Berlin Alfred Döblin’s Hard-boiled Berlin
In Berlin Alexanderplatz, we are plunged into a cauldron of alienation, violence, and social breakdown that would deliver all of Germany into the hands of the Nazis.
Apr 26, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Adam Kirsch
Wallace Thurman in Harlem Wallace Thurman in Harlem
As an editor, novelist, and playwright, Wallace Thurman sought to offer honest, unabashed portraits of black life in Harlem.
Apr 26, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Allyson Hobbs
A History of 19th-Century Britain Without the People A History of 19th-Century Britain Without the People
David Cannadine’s Victorious Century focuses on high politics to the exclusion of nearly everything else.
Apr 25, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Richard J. Evans
The Lamentations of Mount Eerie and David Byrne The Lamentations of Mount Eerie and David Byrne
Mount Eerie’s Now Only and David Byrne’s American Utopia both try to find meaning in a world of loss and death.
Apr 24, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
Behind Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Selection Behind Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Selection
Our charge as the jury was pretty much the same as my job as a critic: to listen carefully, with open ears and an equally open mind.
Apr 23, 2018 / David Hajdu
Drifting With the Current Drifting With the Current
In the Last Days of the City is a richly sensuous film that strives to accommodate the thick, shifting layers of sight and sound that overwhelm verbal descriptions of Cairo.
Apr 23, 2018 / Stuart Klawans
James Comey’s Self-Regard James Comey’s Self-Regard
The former FBI director wants you to know that he was right about Trump—and the Clinton emails.
Apr 23, 2018 / Jon Wiener
80 Days That Changed America 80 Days That Changed America
Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates. Two new projects explain why.
Apr 23, 2018 / Joan Walsh
John Bolton Replaces H.R. McMaster John Bolton Replaces H.R. McMaster
We’ve said our farewells to McMaster, Who all hoped would stave off disaster. We’ve now got in charge A nutcase at large. The end of the world may come faster.
Apr 19, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin