It’s a Witch Hunt! It’s a Witch Hunt!
Or Some witchlike people have disguises that May cover up a black and pointy hat. The one nabbed first of all, to Trump’s chagrin, Was “Lock Her Up” adviser Michael Flynn. Then Man…
May 10, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Nazis Among Us The Nazis Among Us
Fatih Akin’s In the Fade.
May 10, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Paul Hockenos
The Turmoil of Fearful Anticipation The Turmoil of Fearful Anticipation
Many of the stories in Dino Buzzati’s Catastrophe are more concerned with paranoia and fear than with dramatic repercussions.
May 9, 2018 / Bradley Babendir
The Magic of Denis Johnson The Magic of Denis Johnson
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden isn't exactly a sequel to Jesus’ Son, but it has the same breezy, epiphanic quality.
May 9, 2018 / Books & the Arts / J. Robert Lennon
Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters in the ’60s
They weren’t friends, and they weren’t all of the same generation, but they all shared a similar view of how we should relate to nature.
May 9, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Bill McKibben
All About Pace All About Pace
For all its commercial mass, Avengers: Infinity War floats along as if it were any other item on a day’s menu of diversions.
May 4, 2018 / Stuart Klawans
No Barbed Wire, No Guard Towers No Barbed Wire, No Guard Towers
The photographic legacy of the WWII-era detainment of Japanese Americans is itself a product of historical forces.
May 4, 2018 / Madeleine Han
Can Yanis Varoufakis Save Europe? Can Yanis Varoufakis Save Europe?
At a moment when many on the right and left have abandoned the European project, Greece’s former finance minister has other plans for the continent.
May 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Joseph Conrad and the Dawn of Globalization Joseph Conrad and the Dawn of Globalization
What passes for civilization is often just refined savagery.
May 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin