Haiti’s Jacobin Haiti’s Jacobin
A new biography explores the mysterious life and times of Toussaint Louverture.
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / David A. Bell
Working-Class New Yorkers Are in Danger of Going Extinct. So Is Our Accent. Working-Class New Yorkers Are in Danger of Going Extinct. So Is Our Accent.
I’m a proud, fifth-generation New Yorker with a strong outer-borough brogue. I’m also probably the last.
Nov 1, 2016 / Tara Clancy
This Is Not the First Time the FBI Has Interfered With a Presidential Election This Is Not the First Time the FBI Has Interfered With a Presidential Election
Throughout his career, J. Edgar Hoover used the bureau to meddle in presidential politics and secure his own power.
Oct 31, 2016 / Jeff Kisseloff
Puzzle No. 3413 Puzzle No. 3413
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 An English seductress might know what makes this something for your lips (9) 6 One radical restrains really, reall…
Oct 27, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Twenty-Four Hours From Home Twenty-Four Hours From Home
Where, Ms. Bishop, should the boy and I be today? All precedent’s out of the question, the question out of something like itself but lacking answer. What we have here’s here as if…
Oct 27, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Graham Foust
Letters From the November 14, 2016, Issue Letters From the November 14, 2016, Issue
The art of words… Words are her matter… Live by shame, die by shame… Carré’d away…
Oct 27, 2016 / Our Readers
A Starting Point for Politics A Starting Point for Politics
The radical life and times of Stuart Hall.
Oct 27, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Bruce Robbins
The Brilliance of Lines The Brilliance of Lines
Agnes Martin at the Guggenheim and Carmen Herrera at the Whitney.
Oct 26, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
History on Trial, On-Screen History on Trial, On-Screen
Challenging Holocaust deniers was messier in real life than in the new film Denial.
Oct 25, 2016 / D.D. Guttenplan
Tom Hayden and the Unfinished Business of Democracy Tom Hayden and the Unfinished Business of Democracy
Though an irreplaceable voice for peace has been silenced, his vision will live on.
Oct 24, 2016 / The Nation