November 21, 2016, Issue

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Editorial

Asking for a Friend: My Young Daughter Is Trans—How Do I Get Her on the Right Soccer Team Without Forcing Her to Come Out?

Another reader is worried that his artisanal carpentry limits him to crafting for the 1 percent.
Liza Featherstone
Utopia? Forget About It. Time for ‘Untopia.’

Striving for the perfect society has been the cause of great misery. We should embrace our imperfections.
Walter Mosley
5 Books You Need to Understand the Origins of Incarceration

Elizabeth Hinton
The United States May Be Guilty of War Crimes in Yemen

The Saudi air campaign is targeting schools, hospitals, markets—and US military support makes it all possible.
Michael T. Klare
James Comey Has Discredited Himself and the FBI

And his “October surprise” will do little the change the election’s fundamentals.
The Nation

Column

Michelle Obama

Calvin Trillin
Americans Are Finding New Ways to Join the Surveillance State

Some of them aren’t pretty.
Patricia J. Williams
Hillary Clinton Has One More Badly Behaved Man Left to Vanquish

Could the clouds of testosterone billowing from the campaign have something to do with the fact that Donald Trump is facing a woman?
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts

Haiti’s Jacobin

A new biography explores the mysterious life and times of Toussaint Louverture.
David A. Bell
Cosmopolitan Pop

DJ /rupture and MIA capture the new global spirit of pop music.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Baby Hamlet

Ian McEwan’s latest novel returns to a recurring theme—the breakup of the modern family.
Joanna Biggs
Freud’s Discontents

Why did one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers fade from significance?
Samuel Moyn
The Essential Ferrante

How the Italian novelist’s demand to remain anonymous reveals her true identity.
Vivian Gornick
The Overhead

John Ashbery
Domino Effect

John Ashbery
Zadie Smith’s Liberal Imagination

Once reveling in the hopes and possibilities of a multicultural society, her fiction now has taken on a more despairing outlook.
Adam Kirsch

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