Noname’s Verbal Acrobatics Noname’s Verbal Acrobatics
Being able to hold many meanings at once—political and personal—is at the heart of her latest album.
Oct 16, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Samantha Schuyler
How to Convince Conservatives That a Scientific Discovery Might Just Kill Us All How to Convince Conservatives That a Scientific Discovery Might Just Kill Us All
Step 1: You can't.
Oct 16, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow
Why Are US Military Personnel Using Unsafe Equipment? Why Are US Military Personnel Using Unsafe Equipment?
A new documentary exposes how and why the Pentagon has let this happen.
Oct 12, 2018 / William D. Hartung
How Latin Got Woke How Latin Got Woke
Latin has long been the domain of dead white men. Today, a new cadre of scholars is trying to take it back.
Oct 12, 2018 / StudentNation / Lisa De Bode
The FBI/White House Supplemental Background Check on Brett Kavanaugh The FBI/White House Supplemental Background Check on Brett Kavanaugh
If the Federal Bureau had been no more thorough Than that when it was in charge, All the federal pens would have cell blocks left empty, And Dillinger’d still be at large.
Oct 11, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Extinction Extinction
When you are gone they will read your footprints, if they still read, as they might a poem about love— wandering in circles, here and there obscured, washed out in places by weathe…
Oct 11, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David Baker
Puzzle No. 3479 Puzzle No. 3479
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Poet with nothing to indicate one agricultural staple and another (4,7) 7 Engineer posted about ultimate component…
Oct 11, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Magic of Helen DeWitt The Magic of Helen DeWitt
In the world of Some Trick, the best words are so acute they lacerate.
Oct 11, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Becca Rothfeld
One Thousand Years of Labor One Thousand Years of Labor
Andrea Komlosy’s new history traces our evolving notions of work and how what we do is ultimately also about what we owe one another.
Oct 10, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Gabriel Winant
SOPHIE and Blood Orange’s Thrilling Transformations SOPHIE and Blood Orange’s Thrilling Transformations
SOPHIE’s Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides and Blood Orange’s Negro Swan capture two high-wire acts of musical reinvention.
Oct 10, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen