CULTURE

Women Playwrights Lose the Limelight

In the late days of June, as the old theatre season was ebbing away and new-season announcements were streaming in,…

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How Rembrandt Saw Esther | The New Yorker

Jewish persecution and Jewish self-protection, not to mention Jewish paranoia, the relations of Jews and Persians, the morality of Jewish…

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Rachel Kushner’s Advice to Writers

The novelist Rachel Kushner recently taught a class at Stanford that concerned, as the course catalogue advertised it, “the sacred…

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“Natural History,” by Clare Sestanovich

Yesterday, the most important day of his life. Unless it was today. Source link

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Did Donald Trump Really Just Break Up with Vladimir Putin?

Donald Trump finally called “bullshit” on Vladimir Putin this week, though nobody seems to quite know what it means. One…

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The Texas Floods and the Lives Lost at Camp Mystic

The sleepaway camp where my ten-year-old daughter will live for a month this summer forbids phone calls for the first…

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Kalief Browder: A Decade Later

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All My Dentist’s Feedback So Far

Welcome to the lifelong struggle of dealing with our creator’s sickest joke—putting rotting bones in our eating holes. Source link

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Trump, Congress, and the War Powers Resolution

Two interrelated fears that have caused mounting public alarm with respect to the Trump Administration involve unchecked executive power and…

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Megan Fernandes Reads Hala Alyan

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