Domino Effect Domino Effect
For an erection lasting more than four hours tell him you don’t agree with him. The most desirable of her pots authored a vast intelligence. Don’t make me sick of this, followed ev…
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / John Ashbery
Freud’s Discontents Freud’s Discontents
Why did one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers fade from significance?
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
The Overhead The Overhead
For two decades we kept Mum in the attic. Finally, one hubba hubba day in spring we let her out to walk in the park. She was never seen again. The police refused to inspect the par…
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / John Ashbery
Baby Hamlet Baby Hamlet
Ian McEwan’s latest novel returns to a recurring theme—the breakup of the modern family.
Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Biggs
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
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
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
Yde Girl Yde Girl
In the Drents Museum The rope, it is a breathless yes fingers press into this windy oboe my throat—one woolen waistband slip-knotted on neck keeps me warm below twelve feet of peat…
Oct 20, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Julian Gewirtz
Democracy’s Revenge Democracy’s Revenge
What political scientists and policy journalists often miss about American politics.
Oct 19, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Shenk