The Forty-Fourth Year of the Reagan Administration
What would it sound like if the Democratic elite said the quiet part out loud?
November 7, 2024 issue
Hitler’s Enablers
The complicity of conservative nationalists in the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933 offers disturbing parallels to the current American political situation.
November 7, 2024 issue
Ralph Ellison’s Alchemical Camera
The novelist’s photographs reveal an aestheticizing impulse that is difficult to reconcile with the relentless seriousness of his observations and critiques of American society.
November 7, 2024 issue
‘A Woman Who Wins’
In her series of historical novels about the life of Saint Hilda of Whitby, Nicola Griffith explores how a woman of modest means became one of the most influential people in seventh-century Britain.
November 7, 2024 issue
Getting Out the Fear Vote
As Trump improvises at his rallies, his grim imaginings of a mongrelized, crime-ridden country are transformed into unfalsifiable myths.
November 7, 2024 issue
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