Dissolving Boundaries
The wealth of Hustvedt’s intellectual trespassing permeates this book.
Apartheid America
I have to believe that the “whites-only democracy” I grew up with in South Africa will never take hold anywhere again.
A Shotgun Blast of Tribalization
If healthy relationships are nourishing meals, then social media is cotton candy—a sweet, vanishing sugar rush.
The Sound of Truth: Writers for Democratic Action, Here and Elsewhere
Some 2,500 other writers joined us in our efforts in the somewhat grandiose-sounding task of supporting democracy.
Poetry as Secular Prayer
The writer places him or herself firmly between one moment of creation and the next.
On Tom Sleigh’s “The King’s Touch”
The King’s Touch is an extraordinary pleasure not to be missed.
A Source of Poetic Respiration
Computer-generated poetry might be exactly what we, at this time, truly need.
The Rise and Fall of Foto & Video Magazine
Although Foto & Video is no more, with it Dmitry Kiyan shaped modern Russian photography as we know it today.
Lloyd Schwartz's “Who's on First?”
Lloyd Schwartz is, by any measure, a potent force in American letters.
Notes from a Strange War
I think what we witness on the Polish-Belorussian border is a war — a strange, new kind of war with new forms of violence.
Eye to Eye
We need to bring artificial intelligence out of the corporate shadows and into the light.
The Bear Behind Bannon
He has never wavered from his objective: attaining the power to disrupt our democracy.
It’s Different When It’s Your Mother
Was it wrong to single out one boy for care in a country full of disabled children?
Sleeping Beauty – la belle au bois dormant
Paris has suddenly woken up, after a couple of years of shuttered R&R.