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The Walter Tevis Renaissance The Walter Tevis Renaissance

On the revival of one of the most perceptive American chroniclers of addiction.

May 25, 2022 / Jackson Arn

Unfaithfulness (from Four Allegories of Love), 1575. Artist: Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588)

The Ardor of Tessa Hadley The Ardor of Tessa Hadley

Her novels are masterful domestic dramas that obsess over the mechanics of adultery and illicit passion.

May 25, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Sophie Haigney

Sun, Sand, Surf, Sea—and Russian Rockets: Wartime in Odesa

Sun, Sand, Surf, Sea—and Russian Rockets: Wartime in Odesa Sun, Sand, Surf, Sea—and Russian Rockets: Wartime in Odesa

Ukraine’s historic Black Sea resort turns to the war effort.

May 24, 2022 / Leif Reigstad

Nation Poetry

Snow Maze Snow Maze

  Everything feels cold I’d love a little warmth But I am stuck out here While they warm themselves By the fireplace or by the fire They have no bones And are completely ash I…

May 24, 2022 / Poems / Dorothea Lasky

The Long History of Resistance That Birthed Black Lives Matter

The Long History of Resistance That Birthed Black Lives Matter The Long History of Resistance That Birthed Black Lives Matter

A conversation with historian Donna Murch about the past, present, and future of Black radical organizing.

May 24, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Elias Rodriques

the poet defends his right to a future and demands its immediate redistribution the poet defends his right to a future and demands its immediate redistribution

the right to be stone if you take the snow to the caribbean sea, it melts. if you destroy capital’s temperaments, we return. you can’t concoct water, only its forms. to interrupt t…

May 24, 2022 / Poems / Raquel Salas Rivera

Vivek Chibber

Vivek Chibber on the Future of Marxist Thought Vivek Chibber on the Future of Marxist Thought

His new book The Class Matrix: Social Theory After the Cultural Turn is an impassioned argument for centering class politics in both theory and praxis.

May 23, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

America’s Largest, Most Neglected Machine Could Be the Key to Radical Climate Activism

America’s Largest, Most Neglected Machine Could Be the Key to Radical Climate Activism America’s Largest, Most Neglected Machine Could Be the Key to Radical Climate Activism

Most of us ignore the electrical grid, but it’s a crucial part of the transition to renewable energy capacity.

May 23, 2022 / Feature / Jessi Jezewska Stevens

How It Actually Sounded: Gene Santoro, 1950–2022

How It Actually Sounded: Gene Santoro, 1950–2022 How It Actually Sounded: Gene Santoro, 1950–2022

A superb reporter whose journalism will remain a vivid and reliable record of its time.

May 20, 2022 / Obituary / Gene Seymour

The Disastrous History of Rikers

The Disastrous History of Rikers The Disastrous History of Rikers

How a failed agenda of jail reform produced one of the country's most infamous penal colonies.

May 19, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Kay Gabriel

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