Don't worry everyone, Africa has a new hero...
Coachella’s Tupac hologram marked the end of the singular experience...
Mediated game playing saps games of their sociality...
The spelling was acted. The wording did not match normal Kerrean forms. The theme was uniform.
Liz Hynes speaks with Caleb Crain and Charles Petersen about the NYPL's Central Library Plan. A public discussion of the subject will take place at 6:30 tonight, May 22, at the New School's Theresa La...
The middle is getting screwed...
Alma Guillermoprieto Carolyn Kaster/AP Images President Obama with the Colombian singer Shakira and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in Cartagena, where he was attending t...
Criticism without judgement...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt files for bankruptcy; "men's fiction" for e-readers; the future of the NYPL: a roundtable...
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (by Mohammed Hanif)A FEW CHAPTERS into Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, the titular protagonist relaxes on a stretcher between shifts at the chaotic Karachi hospital where she i...
The rise and fall of Communist playwright and memoirist Lillian Hellman...
Supporters of the three men disputed the charges, saying the men had come to protest at the Nato summit peacefully and that the police had confused beer-making equipment with explosives. A lawyer for...
In the years after the Fulton Mall project was strangled by Fashion Fair, gangs began to proliferate in downtown Fresno. The most active of these were the Bulldogs (named for the Fresno State mascot),...
Fake Twitter and Facebook accounts have been created in their names, along with a Wikipedia entry and dozens of message board postings and blog comments. Websites were registered in their names. The t...
Hugh Eakin Sudarsan Raghavan/The Washington Post/Getty Images A Yemeni military position in Zinjibar, Yemen on the main highway between the city and Aden on December 28, 2011...
A straightforward problem in mathematics remains unsolved...
A straightforward problem in mathematics remains unsolved...
"BE MORE PRECISE IN YOUR TERMINOLOGY!"...
Hard pressed for a semiological deciphering...
Hard pressed for a semiological deciphering...
When the flowers of the garden no longer smell sweet, when the leaves refuse to bloom and the birds to sing, the bosses of the garden go into crisis.
Journalist Laurie Penny sent me snaps of her busmates on the way to the anti-NATO protests in Chicago: kids who were singing Disney songs as they prepared to be beaten and arrested. So I drew them.
Sometimes Sunday Reading happens on Saturday. Sometime it happens on Monday. Sunday Reading is unpredictable like that.
It would be nice to suppose that we could begin here with: “We’re all aware of the occasion, on December 9, 2010, when police in London adopted the paramilitary tactic called ‘kettling’ and re...
What has the recession done to Millennials?
What has the recession done to Millennials?
Habitues of the Lower East Side's coffee and cake saloons conspired to win themselves a bigger slice of the pie.
Electric Literature rolls out its "Critical Hit" awards for May's best book reviews; Newly minted New Republic owner Chris Hughes has lured former editor Franklin Foer back to edit the magazine.
Electric Literature rolls out its "Critical Hit" awards for May's best book reviews; Newly minted New Republic owner Chris Hughes has lured former editor Franklin Foer back to edit the magazine.
Boarded Windows must be appreciated as one of those debut novels that strike their own dizzy balance. It's a rock'n'roll story couched in Proustian delicacy, a Beat reconfiguring of the family that mo...
Boarded Windows must be appreciated as one of those debut novels that strike their own dizzy balance. It's a rock'n'roll story couched in Proustian delicacy, a Beat reconfiguring of the family that mo...
Freedom’s Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War (by Guy Gugliotta)WHEN GEORGE WASHINGTON chose a plan for the U.S. Capitol in 1793, the promised building seemed destine...
For a moment, he was obscured by the Havana night. It was as if he were invisible, as he had been before coming to Cuba, in the midst of revolution. Then a burst of floodlights illuminated him: Willia...
When Richard Carmona talks to voters in Arizona, he likes to tell them that their state—his state—has a lousy reputation. He travels a lot, and people often ask him where he lives. “...
On a recent Sunday morning in the black township of Kwa Thema, near Johannesburg, a young lesbian couple went to church. Kwa Thema is one of many settlements that were created by the apartheid regime...
The state is astonished. Men are astonished. We are astonished that they are astonished. And now we come to the problem.
Much more surprising than getting pushed around by museum security was the realization that an institution devoted to procuring objects for people to look at was actively blocking their view of a live...
Members of the Olympic Family must also have at their disposal at least 500 air-conditioned limousines with chauffeurs wearing uniforms and caps...
IANAC but this SIFUAB. Or: Oh Canada. Oh.
Joe Sacco This story is drawn from “Kushinagar,” which appeared originally in French in XXI, no. 13, January/February/March 2011, and will appear in Englis...
it is them, it is women, above all, who have an objective interest in ruining this condition...
Eamon Duffy Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination an exhibition at the British Library, London, November 11, 2011–March 13, 2012 British Li...
Garry Wills AP Photo/Stephan Savoia Mitt Romney laughs while addressing supporters at a campaign rally in Boston, March 6, 2012 Everyone has noticed by now the non-laugh l...
Héctor Abad creates a sociopolitical portrait of Colombia through the telling of his family’s story.
Starting to take a hard look at Internet memes...
Starting to take a hard look at Internet memes...
Toni Morrison, whose novel “Home” enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 9 this week, remembers being confronted by a stark image of race relations as a freshman at Howard University.
At the risk of being irritatingly solipsistic and meta, allow me to be irritatingly solipsistic and meta. Also, banks and credit.
Jonathan Franzen’s essays express his love of birds and of writers, especially his friend David Foster Wallace.
At 64,000 members and counting, the Twitter-based reading group 1book140 is a global concern.
Smartphones pre-empt the possibility of conversation even before we choose to look at them and look away from the person speaking to us.
Around the world in the fields...
Around the world in the fields...
Paperback books of particular interest.
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
Phillip Lopate on the transitional moment for essays.
Lucia Perillo’s two collections, poems and stories, draw upon her experiences in a world that often hurts her.
With a Venusian transit imminent, 18th-century astronomers risked their lives for a chance to measure the solar system.
A firefight with Iraqi insurgents is caught on tape and turns a band of soldiers into media heroes in Ben Fountain’s satire.
Fleeing the pressures of academia, Thad Ziolkowski’s Midwestern hero is sucked into his family’s schemes and strife.