VIDEO: Ursula K. Le Guin on Listening to the Unheard Voices VIDEO: Ursula K. Le Guin on Listening to the Unheard Voices
The late author on climate change, the definition of progress, and how “the future in science fiction is just a metaphor for now.”
Jan 26, 2018 / The Nation
Margins and the Mainstream at the New Museum’s ‘Trigger’ Margins and the Mainstream at the New Museum’s ‘Trigger’
As something that confutes the distinction between fact and fiction, gender is fundamentally congruent with art and aesthetics.
Jan 26, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Letters From the February 12-19, 2018, Issue Letters From the February 12-19, 2018, Issue
Red Famine revisited… Faith in community…
Jan 25, 2018 / Our Readers
Puzzle No. 3454 Puzzle No. 3454
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Lewis’s bun (7) 5 Quite a lot of boxes (7) 9 007’s beginning to wear right shirt to rest for the night (5) 10 Sta…
Jan 25, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
What Causes Some Cities to Become Sites of Revolution? What Causes Some Cities to Become Sites of Revolution?
To understand the American and French revolutions, one must look not simply at their origins in the wider world but also at how particular environments could become crucibles of in...
Jan 25, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell
One Year On, Trump Coverage Achieves Complete Closed Loop One Year On, Trump Coverage Achieves Complete Closed Loop
Some hot, fresh takes from the same old faces.
Jan 24, 2018 / Tom Tomorrow
‘I Came With a Calling’: Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin ‘I Came With a Calling’: Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin
The writer died this week, at 88.
Jan 24, 2018 / Zoë Carpenter
A Governor Renews Net-Neutrality Protections With the Stroke of a Pen A Governor Renews Net-Neutrality Protections With the Stroke of a Pen
Montana’s Steve Bullock comes up with simple step states can take to preserve Internet freedoms.
Jan 24, 2018 / John Nichols
Feminist Living: Lynne Segal Feminist Living: Lynne Segal
For Segal, politics is not just about liberation but about collective joy.
Jan 24, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Charlotte Shane
Weed Shall Overcome Weed Shall Overcome
No other TV series captures daily life in New York City quite like HBO’s High Maintenance.
Jan 20, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Judy Berman