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Reading Melville in Post-9/11 America

The author's half-forgotten masterpiece, Benito Cereno, provides fascinating insight into issues of slavery, freedom, individualism—and Islamophobia.

Greg Grandin

Melville and the Language of Denial

The events behind his story Benito Cereno are more than two centuries old, but the deceptions of racial inferiority that Melville exposes resonate today.

Toni Morrison

How US Evangelicals Fueled the Rise of Russia’s ‘Pro-Family’ Right

An alliance is born between anti-gay, anti-abortion American groups and the Russian Orthodox Church.

Adam Federman

What Bill de Blasio Can Learn From New York City’s Last Radical Mayor

Fiorello La Guardia also took office in a time of crisis—and he was open to new ideas and bold reforms.

D.D. Guttenplan

We Need Privacy Laws for the Digital Era

Updating the Fourth Amendment has been done before, to address the invention of cars, phones and GPS. It’s time to do it again.

David Cole

How Boilerplate Contracts Strip Our Rights

Almost every day, corporations seize them without our informed consent. The consumer protection bureau should put a stop to it.

Theresa Amato

Removing the Judge Who Ruled ‘Stop and Frisk’ Unconstitutional Is a Blow to Justice

An appeals court’s unprecedented removal of Shira Scheindlin has sent a chilling message to other federal judges.

Dan Wise

This Modern World

Tom Tomorrow

Snapshot: A Roman Ruin, in Ice

Kim Kyung Hoon

Remember ‘Benghazi’?

Wild Republican accusations have been debunked—but still they continue.

Eric Alterman

It’s Time to End ‘Broken Windows’ Policing

The returning William Bratton should recognize that the notorious policy has exacerbated discrimination, not improved safety.

Patricia J. Williams

Settlement

Calvin Trillin

Reading Melville in Post-9/11 America

The author's half-forgotten masterpiece, Benito Cereno, provides fascinating insight into issues of slavery, freedom, individualism—and Islamophobia.

Greg Grandin

Melville and the Language of Denial

The events behind his story Benito Cereno are more than two centuries old, but the deceptions of racial inferiority that Melville exposes resonate today.

Toni Morrison

What Bill de Blasio Can Learn From New York City’s Last Radical Mayor

Fiorello La Guardia also took office in a time of crisis—and he was open to new ideas and bold reforms.

D.D. Guttenplan

An Artful Imbalance

Treme is an understated and deeply melancholic patchwork of American stubbornness.

Akiva Gottlieb

Infamy or Urn?

How was Emily Dickinson able to be frugal and fruitful in her art?

Ange Mlinko

Pop & Circumstance

The teenpop of the teens has proved discomfiting, like the dead brought back to life.

Joshua Clover

Wolves’ Hall

Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake, Asghar Farhadi’s The Past

Stuart Klawans

Destination Wedding

Danielle Chapman

The Taiga

Frances Leviston

Letters

Don’t follow the money… a Nation memory… Twitterverse?… Hannah and her misters…

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Puzzle No. 3309

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto