Stifled Rage
Louisa May Alcott worked obsessively to become a successful writer, which meant that despite her gift for tart observation she often retreated into homilies and platitudes.
April 18, 2024 issue
Israel: The Way Out
If Israel is to survive, physically and spiritually, it needs to undergo, collectively, a sea change in its vision of reality and face some unpleasant though obvious facts.
May 9, 2024 issue
How American Eyes Got Modern
The mid-century ideal of art as a departure into the unknown was not the exclusive property of heroic painters. Printmakers made cutting-edge art on a homier scale—and it was affordable.
May 9, 2024 issue
Trump’s Delayed Reckoning
The Supreme Court has not yet decided whether to grant Donald Trump criminal immunity—but its handling of the case has already worked in his favor.
April 18, 2024
The Must-Also-Haves
In Nicole Eisenman’s paintings and sculptures, a system’s impending demise may reveal itself in feverish hilarity.
May 9, 2024 issue
Free from the Archives
Alison Lurie: Liberated Girls“In Little Women there are four heroines, all different and all imperfect. In the course of the story they struggle to become good, but like most human beings, they never completely succeed. The implication is that it is possible to have serious faults—vanity, anger, impatience, timidity, and selfishness—and still deserve happiness.”
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