Leaving Home to Go Home Leaving Home to Go Home
Yaa Gyasi’s ideas about fiction are suffused with her lifelong attention to the fluctuating shadows that race casts on American life.
Aug 12, 2016 / Erin Vanderhoof
Puzzle No. 3405 Puzzle No. 3405
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Lose weight ahead of surprisingly sturdy business opportunity (6,8) 10 “Flipper Returns”: story is comparatively co…
Aug 11, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Best Defense Against Donald Trump The Best Defense Against Donald Trump
Well, that backfired.
Aug 11, 2016 / Steve Brodner
The Gadfly and the Spider The Gadfly and the Spider
Justin E.H. Smith wants to convince academic philosophers that it’s a problem to define philosophy narrowly as a Western endeavor.
Aug 10, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Nausicaa Renner
Before the 1 Percenters, There Were the Uzedas Before the 1 Percenters, There Were the Uzedas
In The Viceroys, Frederico De Roberto’s novel of the Risorgimento, the Uzeda family corrupts everything it touches.
Aug 10, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Frederika Randall
Brand Yeezy Brand Yeezy
To what extent can Kanye West continue to foreground the commercial components that make his art possible before we no longer consider him an artist at all?
Aug 9, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Angela Flournoy
Finally, Millennials Are Proving Themselves Useful Finally, Millennials Are Proving Themselves Useful
And totally not in a creepy way.
Aug 9, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow
Oneida’s Original, Utopian Vision Oneida’s Original, Utopian Vision
Championing the free market is compatible with the company’s original free-love doctrine: The fierce desire of men to feel competent bankrolls both.
Aug 8, 2016 / Hannah Gold
A Tale of Two Pictures A Tale of Two Pictures
Black Lives Matter resists definition and is full of contradictions, but that’s where its power lies.
Aug 8, 2016 / Joshua Clover
One More Media Organization Just Admitted: Unpaid Internships Have to Go One More Media Organization Just Admitted: Unpaid Internships Have to Go
An organizing drive at New York Public Radio’s WNYC yielded an unlikely victory for interns—a paycheck.
Aug 8, 2016 / Natalie Pattillo