Sunset Pool Sunset Pool
Things are where we wanted them to be. These cutouts—blue—on the city, spread Like holes in the folds of a map: I walk Into them, little frames of a sequence In which I am a person…
Mar 22, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Amadon
Puzzle No. 3161 Puzzle No. 3161
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Bowing abjectly, Republican breaks in support of the government (9) 6 Almost make a connection involving love? Tha…
Mar 22, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The World of ‘Crime and Punishment’ The World of ‘Crime and Punishment’
A new translation captures the painful backdrop of Dostoyevsky’s classic: the poverty, crime, and violence that shaped much of everyday life in 19th-century St. Petersburg.
Mar 22, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson
Farewell, Robert Grossman Farewell, Robert Grossman
His cover art, cartoons, and comic strips delighted Nation readers for decades.
Mar 22, 2018 / Victor Navasky
5 Years Later, ‘Lean In’ Seems Like a Relic from Another Time 5 Years Later, ‘Lean In’ Seems Like a Relic from Another Time
Sheryl Sandberg preached fitting into the power structure. Instead, women are challenging it.
Mar 21, 2018 / Helaine Olen
Today’s Life and War Today’s Life and War
From above, there are no souls, only bodies, but they are seen as hollow forms, moving the way atoms do in the universe — unseen.
Mar 21, 2018 / Dunya Mikhail
Selma and the Unfulfilled Promise of Civil Rights Selma and the Unfulfilled Promise of Civil Rights
The city’s 20th-century history not only marked a high point in the civil-rights movement; it also captures why America needs more than sporadic intervention if it is to uproot the...
Mar 21, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Elias Rodriques
Letters From the April 16, 2018, Issue Letters From the April 16, 2018, Issue
Beyond #MeToo… A place to be… After Parkland… A scandal [web only]…
Mar 21, 2018 / Our Readers
A New Picture of Karl Marx A New Picture of Karl Marx
Any movie about Marx raises questions about its means of production. But maybe it’s time for a good, relatively mainstream film about anticapitalists.
Mar 19, 2018 / Annie Julia Wyman
How to Organize to Win How to Organize to Win
Rebuilding the democratic infrastructure is too important to leave up to the consultocracy.
Mar 16, 2018 / Marshall Ganz