Adapting Ibsen for Our Times Adapting Ibsen for Our Times
Along with opportunity, recent revivals of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play An Enemy of the People bring much risk.
May 30, 2018 / Alisa Solomon
Roseanne Tried to Use ‘Roseanne’ to Prove that Trump Voters Aren’t Racist. There Was Just 1 Problem. Roseanne Tried to Use ‘Roseanne’ to Prove that Trump Voters Aren’t Racist. There Was Just 1 Problem.
The media want to depict Trump supporters sympathetically, but the actual beliefs of many of them make that impossible.
May 30, 2018 / Ed Burmila
Nazis? Or Just Really Big Racists? Nazis? Or Just Really Big Racists?
Trump supporters can’t handle the name-calling.
May 29, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow
The Problems of Liberalism: A Q&A With Patrick Deneen The Problems of Liberalism: A Q&A With Patrick Deneen
An effort to determine whether common ground can, or should, be found between factions of the left and right against liberalism.
May 28, 2018 / Q&A / Joseph Hogan
Top 10 Memorial Day Songs Top 10 Memorial Day Songs
Songs about war and attendant suffering cut across musical genres.
May 26, 2018 / Peter Rothberg
The Presence and Absence of Basquiat The Presence and Absence of Basquiat
You’d have to go back to Bloomsbury to find another set as insular, self-promoting, self-destructive, imitated, parodied, publicized, and at last mythologized as the crowd that hun…
May 25, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Remembering Philip Roth, 1933–2018 Remembering Philip Roth, 1933–2018
The late writer specialized in answering low blows with high spirits.
May 25, 2018 / Elizabeth Pochoda
Letters From the June 18-15, 2018, Issue Letters From the June 18-15, 2018, Issue
The devil in the details… Massing replies… The ACLU forsworn…
May 24, 2018 / Our Readers and Michael Massing
We Learned the Mountains by Heart We Learned the Mountains by Heart
We went to school we ate pink beef we drank lots of water we snorted ritalin our nostrils turned red we lifted weights we killed a mama moose we sold her teeth online we poked each…
May 24, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Jackson Holbert