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Gaza Without Pretenses

For years Israel and Hamas maintained an unstable equilibrium that kept the Gaza Strip contained. But it was always likely to be temporary.  

October 11, 2023

An Open Letter from Participants in the Palestine Festival of Literature

We call for the international community to commit to ending the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza and to finally pursuing a comprehensive and just political solution in Palestine.

October 14, 2023

Nowhere to Go in Gaza

Today’s evacuation order from the Israeli military directed over a million Gazan civilians to abandon their homes with no safe passage.

October 13, 2023

Gaza: The Cost of Escalation

The consequences of the US’s vengeful reaction to September 11 should remind us of the risks of responding to violence with greater violence. 

October 18, 2023

Inhumane Times

Saturday’s devastating attacks have been met in Israel with rage at the government’s failures and demands for disproportionate vengeance. 

October 12, 2023

Causes for Despair

Wars are usually harbingers of change, yet Israel’s previous wars have achieved no fundamental progress toward peace.

October 10, 2023

Eyeless in Gaza

What lessons do people actually learn from the cruelties they applaud and the ones they suffer in return?

October 10, 2023

Déjà Vu in Israel

The conceptual system that has dominated Israeli thinking and policy for decades has been exposed, repeatedly, as dangerous and delusional.

October 11, 2023

Louise Glück (1943–2023)

October 13, 2023

Ruffians, Gamblers, Thieves, Outcasts

Over more than two decades, the amateur historian Reşad Ekrem Koçu led an ever-expanding project to document Istanbul’s vanishing past. 

October 4, 2023

The Everyman Library

When my father died I inherited his library: tiny books, held in one hand, all bound in cloth, and smelling of Briggs tobacco.

August 27, 2023

Morrison Hall

A recent exhibit of Toni Morrison’s papers raised the question: How do you mourn a monument?

August 18, 2023

Eight and Skate

Today’s iteration of the United Auto Workers—now on a decisive strike—is both a renewal of an old tradition and a new creation.

September 23, 2023

‘The Base of the Labor Pyramid’

Long exploited and denied basic rights, Brazil’s domestic workers continue to organize against an entitled elite.

September 17, 2023

Paradise Lost

In spreading lies about the risks of vaccines, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long played on anxieties about purity and pollution.

September 7, 2023

The Long Struggle of India’s Sanitation Workers

For centuries, the caste system has forced Dalit laborers to handle human waste in deadly conditions. Now they are rising up.

August 24, 2023

Intentionality

I remember wanting to be in a band when I was nine.

October 8, 2023

Finding My Roots

The storytellers who taught me over the course of my career all knew how to bring Black history vividly to life. 

September 29, 2023

Dear Judy

Judy Blume gave voice to many of the feelings I experienced during adolescence, but there were some she didn’t name.

August 11, 2023

Love’s Work

In his films for children, Hayao Miyazaki has used the labor-intensive art of animation to study the major problem of adult life.

July 13, 2023

Armenia’s Mortal Calculus

Having denied the Armenian genocide for decades, last month Azerbaijan launched a genocidal attack on the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave—and forced the exodus of the 120,000 Armenians who live there.

October 10, 2023

‘We Fight Today, We’ll Wrestle Tomorrow’

Imported to the capital by communities displaced in the country’s wars, wrestling has become one of Sudan’s political battlegrounds. 

September 22, 2023

The Specialist

Even as he appeals a recent money-laundering conviction, Panama’s former president has been planning a political comeback. 

September 18, 2023

Black Swan Times

Three months into Ukraine’s counteroffensive, even the best predictions about the war’s outcome could still be thrown off course.

September 13, 2023

Not All Men

The sitcom Jury Duty exploits the controversial tactics of the prank show to make us feel good about mankind.

September 5, 2023

Humorless Barbie

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie finds its comedy in the inflexibility both of plastic and of modern womanhood.

August 27, 2023

Unforgettable, Unrememberable

The Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong uses time-bending narratives and disruptive forms to confront her country’s past. 

August 10, 2023

Persistence of Mission

More than ever, Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible movies are about a film industry in crisis.

August 2, 2023

The Woman Alchemist

Remedios Varo, part of the Surrealist exodus to Mexico City during World War II, transmuted her experience of exile into fantasies of cosmic unity.

October 6, 2023

Broomstrokes

The American painter Ed Clark took his medium to its limits and back again.   

October 5, 2023

A Riot of Color

In the 1930s, the British photographer Yevonde made herself synonymous with the vibrant new color photography process Vivex.

August 19, 2023

The Antispontaneity Artist

In her painstaking commercial work, the photographer Evelyn Hofer distilled city life into moments that feel both posed and not.

August 8, 2023

From A Duel to A Duet

In Jake Heggie’s opera Dead Man Walking, newly staged at the Metropolitan Opera, a conflicted nun ministers to an inmate on death row. 

October 7, 2023

Feel-Ins, Know-Ins, Be-Ins

A newly reissued recording proves that the late saxophonist Pharoah Sanders could get the grandest of effects from the humblest of riffs. 

September 19, 2023

Jammin’ in the Panoram

During World War II, proto–music videos called “soundies” blared pop patriotism from visual jukeboxes across American bars. 

September 2, 2023

Wind in the Nave

Medna Roso documents a revelatory encounter between improvising musicians and Balkan vocalists in a Cologne church. 

August 23, 2023

Drawing from Life

“The human figure seems to me the ultimate subject of art.”

October 18, 2023

A Philosophy of Our Fellow Creatures

“Do animals have opportunities for the flourishing life that is central to their kind?”

October 14, 2023

Private Equity, Public Poverty

“What happens when the owners of wealth cease to have any broader social interest at all?”

October 7, 2023

The Coming Fall

A dispatch from the Art Editor

September 20, 2023

Somnambulant Summer

A dispatch from the Art Editor

August 16, 2023

Ghost of a Guest

A dispatch from the Art Editor

July 19, 2023

On Planes and Boats

A dispatch from the Art Editor

June 28, 2023

What Apartheid Means for Israel

A growing consensus has formed around the term—not as a rhetorical comparison to South Africa, but describing a system of domination built on the partition of Palestine.

November 5, 2021

The Gaza I Grew Up In

Working as a photojournalist there is like walking barefoot in a field of thorns. You must always watch where you step.

November 6, 2020

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

One man’s quest to find his son lays bare the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.

March 19, 2021

Gaza vs. Liberal Zionism

Never do liberal Zionists feel more torn than when Israel is at war.

July 26, 2014