BlaKkKlansman’s Leap Into the Present BlaKkKlansman’s Leap Into the Present
And in Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline, we find a protagonist plunged so deeply into her own mind that there really is no outside.
Aug 16, 2018 / Stuart Klawans
‘If We Don’t Understand Class Struggle, We Don’t Understand Anything’ ‘If We Don’t Understand Class Struggle, We Don’t Understand Anything’
Filmmaker Ken Loach on populism, the gig economy, and the importance of transnational solidarity in his movies and beyond.
Aug 16, 2018 / Q&A / Lorenzo Marsili
William Parker’s Late-Career Bloom William Parker’s Late-Career Bloom
After a 45-year-long career, the jazz bassist is still creating experimental music pulsing with humanity.
Aug 16, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu
Aretha Franklin—Musical Genius, Truth Teller, Freedom Fighter Aretha Franklin—Musical Genius, Truth Teller, Freedom Fighter
Angela Davis, whose bond Franklin offered to post in 1970, says that the singer’s work “helped to shape and deepen a collective consciousness anchored in a yearning for freedom.”
Aug 16, 2018 / Farah Jasmine Griffin
Letters From the September 10-17, 2018, Issue Letters From the September 10-17, 2018, Issue
Poetry, wide open… The poetry editors reply…
Aug 16, 2018 / Our Readers, Stephanie Burt, and Carmen Giménez Smith
Manafort and Gates Manafort and Gates
Their tales of corruption and thieving and fraud Don’t alter the president’s views in the slightest. He’s comfortable boasting, when all’s said and done, That he has attracted the…
Aug 16, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Puzzle No. 3474 Puzzle No. 3474
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Gets angry when Oakland team is taken in by dubious faith (3,1,3) 5 Honest union leader encounters PR battle, avoi…
Aug 16, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The World of Eduardo Galeano The World of Eduardo Galeano
The writer's radical commitments made him an intimate witness to many of the major turning points in Latin American politics over the last 75 years.
Aug 16, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Mark Engler
Refugees, Immigrants, and Donald Trump: Viet Thanh Nguyen Refugees, Immigrants, and Donald Trump: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Plus Anna Deavere Smith on the school-to-prison pipeline and Rachel Kushner on women in prison.
Aug 16, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Mourning the Violence of Its Past, Oklahoma City Is Moving Forward Mourning the Violence of Its Past, Oklahoma City Is Moving Forward
An innovative civic-education organization is inspiring students of a once-progressive state.
Aug 15, 2018 / Elizabeth Pochoda