How Did a Nuclear Warhead End Up Lying in a Ditch in Arkansas? How Did a Nuclear Warhead End Up Lying in a Ditch in Arkansas?
The documentary Command and Control shows just how horrifyingly vulnerable we are to errors involving nuclear weapons.
Sep 13, 2016 / William D. Hartung
Who Freed the Slaves? Who Freed the Slaves?
For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.
Sep 13, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie McCurry
John Berger: The Human, the Artist John Berger: The Human, the Artist
In The Seasons in Quincy, we learn little about the former and attempts to celebrate the latter collapse into the elegiac.
Sep 12, 2016 / Anakwa Dwamena
Top 5 Craziest Moments of the 2016 Campaign Top 5 Craziest Moments of the 2016 Campaign
Spoiler alert: They’re mostly about Donald Trump.
Sep 9, 2016 / Khalid Rahmaan
Affliction and Salvation Affliction and Salvation
Love was a learned art for Iris Murdoch, because it involved realizing that something other than the self is real.
Sep 9, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Becca Rothfeld
Puzzle No. 3407 Puzzle No. 3407
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 They are needed to be a surgeon, or a race-car driver? (4,5,6) 9 Unsophisticated woman rebuilt engine around the m…
Sep 8, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Virtue of Patience The Virtue of Patience
It has taken a lifetime of reading, writing, and drawing for Daniel Clowes to achieve the creative maturity on display in his new book.
Sep 8, 2016 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu
Antoine Volodine’s Army of Avatars Antoine Volodine’s Army of Avatars
Is there any other writer whose work is as strange and hermetic and gloriously, painfully appropriate to the unparalleled shittiness of our times?
Sep 7, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich
Several Types of William Empson Several Types of William Empson
A lost study of Buddhist art reveals a hidden side of a great literary critic.
Sep 6, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Chenxin Jiang