Books and Ideas

The Odyssey of Seymour Hersh

The Odyssey of Seymour Hersh The Odyssey of Seymour Hersh

The legendary reporter and the ambiguities of investigative reporting.

Sep 27, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Michael Massing

Rachel Cusk’s Struggle to Break Free

Rachel Cusk’s Struggle to Break Free Rachel Cusk’s Struggle to Break Free

In her Outline trilogy, the English novelist finds a freedom in art that she cannot locate in life.

Sep 27, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Maggie Doherty

Macron Bastille Day

Is France Finally Reckoning With Its Brutal Past? Is France Finally Reckoning With Its Brutal Past?

Macron's acknowledgement of French torture during the Algerian war was unprecedented—but what comes next?

Sep 18, 2018 / Karina Piser

NYPL Reading Room

Want to Defend Democracy? Start With Your Public Library. Want to Defend Democracy? Start With Your Public Library.

Public libraries are critical within the public sphere and, when fully supported, represent the best of government at work.

Sep 18, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

What the Black Dolls Say

What the Black Dolls Say What the Black Dolls Say

These rare survivors of early African-American art can illuminate much about our difficult history.

Sep 17, 2018 / Elizabeth Pochoda

Hiroshima

John Dower in Conversation: Part II John Dower in Conversation: Part II

A preeminent scholar on the Pacific War uses WWII-era Japan to examine race and US imperialism today.

Sep 17, 2018 / Q&A / Patrick Lawrence

Trump Oval Office Hands Raised

White House Revelations White House Revelations

It’s all just a plot by the “deep state,” he says, To bring down a man who they always have hated. These leakers of course were appointed by him. He faces a deep state that he has…

Sep 14, 2018 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Ann Coulter protest Berkeley

The Myth of ‘Liberal Intolerance’ The Myth of ‘Liberal Intolerance’

The most significant threats to free speech come from conservatives.

Sep 12, 2018 / Column / Eric Alterman

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Young Jean Lee’s Domestic Surrealism Young Jean Lee’s Domestic Surrealism

In her newest play, Lee offers us a look at the straight white man as a specimen.

Sep 11, 2018 / Alisa Solomon

Japan Signing Surrender WWII

John Dower in Conversation: Part I John Dower in Conversation: Part I

The groundbreaking historian of Japan talks about the challenges of scholarship during rapidly changing times.

Sep 6, 2018 / Q&A / Patrick Lawrence

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