Music for Dark Times Music for Dark Times
MGMT and Poliça’s new albums offer songs of solace and alarm.
Mar 8, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen
Letters From the April 2, 2018, Issue Letters From the April 2, 2018, Issue
No magazine is an island… Never mind Armageddon… Executive dysfunction… Behold the nothing that is…
Mar 8, 2018 / Our Readers
Jared Kushner, White House Real-Estate Developer Jared Kushner, White House Real-Estate Developer
Young Jared Kushner thought that he could mix His job with getting cash for 666. (That debt-stuffed building on the River Styx Was not among his most inspired picks.) It looks as i…
Mar 8, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Puzzle No. 3459 Puzzle No. 3459
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Steamship in a lake? Quite the opposite when making a TV show (6) 4 Style accessory is small and brittle (8)…
Mar 8, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Waiting for Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Waiting for Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment
The genre that Pinker’s latest book most closely resembles is not 18th-century philosophie but a TED Talk.
Mar 7, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell
What Would It Take To Actually See What Life Is Like in Prison? What Would It Take To Actually See What Life Is Like in Prison?
An issue and exhibit from the photography foundation Aperture breaks down old tropes of prison life.
Mar 6, 2018 / Photo Essay / John Washington
Zadie Smith’s Dream City Zadie Smith’s Dream City
In a moment when ideological surety is the order of the day, Feel Free asks us to remember that another mode of thought is possible.
Mar 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Ismail Muhammad
Where do Newspaper Columnists Get Their Facts? Where do Newspaper Columnists Get Their Facts?
If it’s wrong, that’s just your opinion.
Mar 6, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow
Caroline Rose, Escaping Americana Caroline Rose, Escaping Americana
On her new album, Loner, the singer-songwriter breaks free of genre.
Mar 5, 2018 / Abigail Covington
Is It Okay to Watch Football? Is It Okay to Watch Football?
On the morality of enjoying a ceaselessly brutal sport that is 70 percent black but has no black ownership.
Mar 5, 2018 / Dave Zirin