Culture

A Post-Convention Guide to Workplace Conversations

A Post-Convention Guide to Workplace Conversations A Post-Convention Guide to Workplace Conversations

How to talk to your coworkers who share different political views.

Jul 29, 2016 / Khalid Rahmaan

Eleanor Chai / Standing Water

What Breeds in ‘Standing Water’ What Breeds in ‘Standing Water’

Eleanor Chai’s poems require delving below the surface of each compact, enjambment-packed stanza, forcing the reader through a process of discovery not unlike Chai’s own origin sto...

Jul 29, 2016 / Larissa Pham

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There’s a Problem With ‘Crowd Labor’ There’s a Problem With ‘Crowd Labor’

Online outsourcing comes with costs.

Jul 29, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Columbia University

The 2016 Nation Student Writing Contest The 2016 Nation Student Writing Contest

Entries will be accepted through Monday, September 26, 2016.

Jul 28, 2016 / StudentNation / Peter Rothberg

Jesse Ball Fire

Jesse Ball’s Extreme Minimalism Jesse Ball’s Extreme Minimalism

His settings are dark, sketchy, and unrealistic by dint of what’s held back.

Jul 28, 2016 / Sasha Chapin

Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Found in Translation

Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Found in Translation Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Found in Translation

They way to see the author’s satire of small-village life whole is to see the translations multiplied.

Jul 28, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier

Kill List

Kill List Kill List

1.At a certain distance, it looks like a poem. 2.Transliterated, maybe, from the Arabic. 3.Short lined. 4.Short lived. 5.At a certain distance, it reads beautifully. 6.What its…

Jul 28, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Amit Majmudar

Puzzle No. 3404

Puzzle No. 3404 Puzzle No. 3404

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Fall to pieces and perish, concealing transgression to get back at informer (12)  9 Leaders of Egypt might begin ex…

Jul 28, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Where Is the New Cyberfeminism?

Where Is the New Cyberfeminism? Where Is the New Cyberfeminism?

Virtual reality remains stuck in age-old ideas about women and their bodies.

Jul 28, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Cecilia D’Anastasio

The ‘Ghostbusters’ Trolls Were Right

The ‘Ghostbusters’ Trolls Were Right The ‘Ghostbusters’ Trolls Were Right

In one sense: The jokes do change when the characters are women, who incite you to laugh through a graveyard of America’s bloody history.

Jul 27, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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