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Fools in Love
Screwball comedies are among the most beloved films of Hollywood’s golden age, but for decades historians and critics have disagreed over what the genre is and which movies belong to it.
September 19, 2024 issue
Culpability and the Culture
In Francine Prose’s memoir 1974, she recounts a brief, intense relationship with one of the men behind the leak of the Pentagon Papers.
September 19, 2024 issue
Venture-Backed Trumpism
Why have right-wing ideas found such an eager audience among tech elites during Biden’s presidency?
September 19, 2024 issue
Monsters Real & Imaginary
In a novel that fuses horror with historical fiction, Victor LaValle explores the lives of African American women who went west around the turn of the twentieth century.
September 19, 2024 issue
Chavismo’s Chokehold
The party of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro maintains a strong hold on state institutions, but it has lost the people’s mandate. Will there be a transfer of power to the opposition candidate, Edmundo González—the true victor of this summer’s election?
September 19, 2024 issue
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James Mann: The Birchers & the Trumpers“It is clear that, just as the style of the Birchers outlasted Welch’s death and the collapse of the Soviet Union, so too the spirit of Trumpism will endure well beyond Trump’s lifetime…. Not long ago, on Fox News, Lara Logan, once a prominent CBS foreign correspondent, compared Anthony Fauci to Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who did experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz.”
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