Volume 67, Number 6 (2020-04-09)

Fintan O’Toole

An Outside Chance

In his presidential campaigns Bernie Sanders has radically altered the meaning of inside and outside.

Sylvia Legris

Corn Crowfoot, Corn Buttercup

a poem

Janet Malcolm

Lovesick

Drab little photographs, if stared at long enough, begin to speak to us.

Robert Macfarlane

The Crapola Sublime

Traces of J.B. Jackson: The Man Who Taught Us to See Everyday America

by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Coco Fusco

Love Among the Ruins

On ‘The Fallen’ by Carlos Manuel Álvarez and ‘Turcos en la niebla’ by Enrique Del Risco

The Fallen

by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne

Turcos en la niebla [The Disoriented Ones]

by Enrique Del Risco

Tim Wu

Bigger Brother

Once your behavior is known, to the extent that it can be predicted, it—you—can also be manipulated.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

by Shoshana Zuboff

The Sweet Smell of Hipness

Glenn O’Brien was the leading boulevardier of my particular subgenerational pocket

Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Collected Writings

by Glenn O’Brien

David Cole

Trump Is Not Exempt

Donald Trump boasted he could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose voters. He now argues that as president he couldn’t even be investigated for doing so.

Namwali Serpell

In the Time of Monsters

The new ‘Watchmen’ show is an example of the clash of the slick and the woke that we’re seeing in so much contemporary cultural production.

Watchmen

a television series created by Damon Lindelof

David S. Reynolds

I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do…

Polygamy: An Early American History

by Sarah M.S. Pearsall

John Banville

No One Gets Out Alive

C’est la Vie

by Pascal Garnier, translated from the French by Jane Aitken

Gallic Noir: Volume 1: The A26, How’s the Pain?, The Panda Theory

translated from the French by Melanie Florence, Emily Boyce, and Gallic Books

Gallic Noir: Volume 2: Boxes, The Front Seat Passenger, The Islanders, Moon in a Dead Eye

translated from the French by Melanie Florence, Jane Aitken, and Emily Boyce

Gallic Noir: Volume 3: The Eskimo Solution, Low Heights, Too Close to the Edge

translated from the French by Emily Boyce and Melanie Florence

James Romm

What Did India Learn from the Greeks?

The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks

by Richard Stoneman

Cass R. Sunstein

The Siren of Selfishness

Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed

by Lisa Duggan

Francine Prose

‘Their Chaotic Mouths’

Night Boat to Tangier

by Kevin Barry

Ethan Bronner

Stuck

The occupation gnaws at the nation’s moral and democratic fiber. Still, Israelis believe that withdrawal would be even more dangerous.

We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel

by Daniel Gordis

Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance

by Amy Kaplan

Christopher Clark,
Racheli Edelman,
David Motadel

Helping Hitler: An Exchange

Letters

Albion M. Urdank,
Caroline Fraser