From Things That Disappear, which will be published in the fall by New Directions. Translated from the German by Kurt Beals. The great advantage of an outhouse is that you never have to flush it and ...
From Pause the Document, which will be published this month by Nightboat Books.
From The Dream Hotel, which will be published this month by Pantheon. Morning light silvers the glass-brick windows of the Safe-X library. A sign taped to the wall above the return shelf says quiet.
From the introduction to a reissue of Martin Amis’s novel London Fields, which was published in November by Vintage, in Britain. The curse of Englishness is something whose magnitude we are still ...
Liberal internationalism died in the ruins of Gaza and Beirut. Donald Trump’s return to office has only put a tin plate on the coffin. The doctrine lost all legitimacy through its dependence on ...
Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation, by Daniel Rachel. Akashic Books. 480 pages. $32.95. When I was asked recently what gigs I’d most ...
The Great Basin is a vast interior watershed cut off from the sea and spanning some two hundred thousand square miles of the American West. Settlers traveling on emigrant trails largely raced through ...
Five months after Donald Trump moved into the White House in 2017, a reporter asked Vladimir Putin about the allegations that Russia had interfered in U.S. elections. After all, Trump had proclaimed ...
Liz Pelly’s article on Spotify’s collusion with the stock-music industry [“The Ghosts in the Machine,” Report, January] is fascinating and well researched, but it could have used more historical ...
Donald Trump’s second victory cannot be attributed to any unhappy accident of eighteenth-century constitutionalism. This time, he won not only the Electoral College, that antique curiosity, but the ...
More than four more years? A look at the philosophy and die-hard adherents of National Conservatism ...
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