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A Bell With a Distant Ring

A Bell With a Distant Ring A Bell With a Distant Ring

There is much to learn from Yasunari Kawabata’s final novel, even as—especially as—it gives rise to more questions than answers.

Jan 29, 2018 / Larissa Pham

Residente

Residente dice que Estados Unidos le debe a Puerto Rico, no al revés Residente dice que Estados Unidos le debe a Puerto Rico, no al revés

El rapero puertorriqueño habla con The Nation sobre el colonialismo, Bernie Sanders, y el camino a la recuperación despues que el huracán Maria.

Jan 29, 2018 / Miguel Salazar

Residente

Residente Says the United States Owes Puerto Rico, Not the Other Way Around Residente Says the United States Owes Puerto Rico, Not the Other Way Around

The Puerto Rican rapper talks to The Nation about colonialism, Bernie Sanders, and the path to recovery after Hurricane Maria.

Jan 29, 2018 / Miguel Salazar

VIDEO: Ursula K. Le Guin on Listening to the Unheard Voices

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’ 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

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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 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? 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

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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

Ursula K. Le Guin

‘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

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