Oscar Wilde’s Art of Disobedience Oscar Wilde’s Art of Disobedience
Revisiting his critical writing, we learn a valuable lesson about the critic’s role in refusing bad taste and bad politics.
Oct 9, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Vorona Cote
Sean Doolittle, Baseball’s Left-Wing Lefty, Retires Sean Doolittle, Baseball’s Left-Wing Lefty, Retires
How the Nationals’ star reliever became the conscience of baseball.
Oct 6, 2023 / Peter Dreier
What Good Is Architecture on a Drowning Planet? What Good Is Architecture on a Drowning Planet?
We need political solutions to climate emergencies, not design solutions.
Oct 6, 2023 / Kate Wagner
The American Ambassador Who Helped Stop a Coup in Chile The American Ambassador Who Helped Stop a Coup in Chile
Everyone knows how Nixon and Kissinger paved Pinochet’s path to power. The story of Harry Barnes, who played a crucial role in the Chilean dictator’s exit, is much less well known...
Oct 5, 2023 / Peter Kornbluh
Frontline Water Protectors Frontline Water Protectors
March in NYC: A fight against the tar sands oil pipeline.
Oct 3, 2023 / OppArt / Susan Simensky Bietila
The Ghosts of Lorrie Moore The Ghosts of Lorrie Moore
An enigmatic new novel retells a disorienting story about death, love, the Civil War, and everything in-between.
Oct 3, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Erin Somers
Schumer Drops Senatorial Dress Code Schumer Drops Senatorial Dress Code
Oct 3, 2023 / Column / Calvin Trillin
What Can We Learn From the History of Utopianism? What Can We Learn From the History of Utopianism?
Books & the Arts / October 3, 2023 The Good Life What can we learn from the history of utopianism? What Can We Learn From the History of Utopianism? In Everyday Utopias, Kr…
Oct 3, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Emily Raboteau
The 9/11 Museum Is an Atrocity Exhibition The 9/11 Museum Is an Atrocity Exhibition
These New Yorkers want to transform the September 11 museum, but can it be anything other than a purveyor of War on Terror propaganda?
Oct 3, 2023 / Column / Spencer Ackerman
Iman Mersal’s Lost Cairo Iman Mersal’s Lost Cairo
In Threshold, the poet revisits a city that transformed her and a generation of radical artists and intellectuals.
Oct 3, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Amir-Hussein Radjy