Culture
Would Politics Be Better Off Without Anger?
Martha Nussbaum’s new book about the dangers of anger tells us more about the limits of the liberal mindset than the actual world of politics.
Amia SrinivasanWideman’s Ghosts
A profound sense of hope and despair haunts John Edgar Wideman’s new work of nonfiction.
Jesse McCarthyResponsible Hedonists
Emily Witt’s new book, Future Sex, captures the ways in which free love and countercultural experiments are no longer as liberating as they once seemed.
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From the Magazine
How Much Did Alan Greenspan Really Know?
Despite the efforts of a new biographer, it seems that Greenspan was more flying by the seat of his pants than acting as a strategic policy-maker.
Jeff MadrickThe Fall Books Issue
Baby Hamlet
Ian McEwan’s latest novel returns to a recurring theme—the breakup of the modern family.
Joanna BiggsAt least since Freud proposed that Hamlet delayed the murder of his uncle because of an unresolved Oedipus complex, Shakespeare’s play has been seen as a psychoanalytic chamber piece. For modern readers, the fact that Hamlet is about a difficult moment in a royal succession pales next to the adultery,… Continue Reading >
Music
A Tribe Called Quest: Thank Them for Their Service
The group returned just when we needed it.
Marcus J. Moore
Cosmopolitan Pop
DJ /rupture and MIA capture the new global spirit of pop music.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Darcy James Argue’s Terrific Thrill
A staggeringly ambitious album explores the themes of cultural paranoia and false truth.
David Hajdu
Films
Those Wondrous Powers
What Arrival offers is so valuable that you might almost choose to pretend that someone knew we were going to need this picture after Trump’s election.
Stuart Klawans
History on Trial, On-Screen
Challenging Holocaust deniers was messier in real life than in the new film Denial.
D.D. Guttenplan
Four Standouts From the New York Film Festival
I Am Not Your Negro, Moonlight, 13th, and I Called Him Morgan.
Stuart KlawansNation Voices
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A Seat at Solange’s Table
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Lies After the War
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