Books and Ideas

Dora Maria Tellez

Dora Maria Téllez Is Free at Last—and Able to Speak Freely! Dora Maria Téllez Is Free at Last—and Able to Speak Freely!

The legendary figure from Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution in an exclusive interview following her release from prison and arrival as an exile in the US.

Mar 2, 2023 / Linda Mannheim and Mike Lanchin

Gwendoline Riley.

Gwendoline Riley’s Biting Realism Gwendoline Riley’s Biting Realism

By turns bracing and comical, her novels find in everyday domestic dramas the art of life.

Mar 2, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Robert Rubsam

A Comic That Captures the Antic Energy of a Post-Truth World

A Comic That Captures the Antic Energy of a Post-Truth World A Comic That Captures the Antic Energy of a Post-Truth World

A conversation with the makers of The Department of Truth, a comic series that examines the intersection of American conspiracy and Western propaganda.

Mar 1, 2023 / Books & the Arts / ML Kejera

Charles Koch during an interview with the Washington Post at the Freedom Partners Summit on August 3, 2015.

Why the Media Just Can’t Stop Whitewashing the Koch Family Why the Media Just Can’t Stop Whitewashing the Koch Family

The political uses of the “poor little rich girl” narrative.

Feb 27, 2023 / Jeet Heer

Pablo Neruda in New York in 1966

The Possible Murder of Pablo Neruda The Possible Murder of Pablo Neruda

Questions have surrounded the legendary Chilean poet’s death for years, and a new inquiry suggests that he might have been poisoned.

Feb 23, 2023 / Peter Kornbluh

Jay Jackson’s Audacious Comics

Jay Jackson’s Audacious Comics Jay Jackson’s Audacious Comics

Written during World War II, Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos offered its readers a science-fiction epic that imagined a future liberated from racism and inequality.

Feb 23, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Jeet Heer

Leadership, Kevin McCarthy–Style

Leadership, Kevin McCarthy–Style Leadership, Kevin McCarthy–Style

He bowed to the wackos’ demands. He’d needed their votes. Those were vital To winning the office he craved. Now all he has left is the title.

Feb 23, 2023 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Television executive and Chairman of Fox News Roger Ailes in front of logo of recently launched Fox News Channel at Television Critics Association press event, January 14, 1997.

Crazy Like a Fox (Satire Alert) Crazy Like a Fox (Satire Alert)

How Roger Ailes made Fox News the place to find subjective objectivity.

Feb 22, 2023 / Richard Lingeman and Marvin Kitman

Carlos Berger's memorial

Chile’s Battle for Memory: A Report From the Latest Front Chile’s Battle for Memory: A Report From the Latest Front

The fight over a memorial to my friend Carlos Berger and other victims of the Caravan of Death reveals that there are still many in Chile who resist the lessons of our country’s tr...

Feb 22, 2023 / Ariel Dorfman

The Black Panthers’ Liberation School

Why the United States Needs a New Reconstruction Why the United States Needs a New Reconstruction

In The Third Reconstruction, historian Peniel Joseph examines how how the broken promises of racial equality in the past might be fulfilled in the future.

Feb 22, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Robert Greene II

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