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How Would Bonhoeffer Vote?
As so many different political camps invoke Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Joel Looper takes a deep dive into the late German theologian's political thought.
All Essays
Getting to Know and Love Yourself Without Regard to Others’ Expectations or Thoughts: On Trisha R. Thomas’s “Nappily Ever After”
Trisha R. Thomas’s “Nappily Ever After” is about much more than hair.
May We Live in Interesting Times
Judith Freeman travels to the 58th Venice Biennale, curated by Ralph Rugoff.
Confession is Just a Special Form of Bragging: On "Fleabag"
Anastasia Berg considers confession and confessors from Saint Augustine to Fyodor Dostoevsky to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag.
The Parents of Curious George
Margret and H. A. Rey were the reluctant parents of a cartoon ape-child.
Bauhaus100.com: Reflections on a National and Global Celebration
Georg Leidenberger considers the legacy of the Bauhaus school on its centenary.
Griot Jali: California’s First Poet Laureate, Quincy Troupe, Returns to His Old Stomping Ground
Patrick Howell interviews author Quincy Troupe about Harlem, growing up in St. Louis, and what's next.
Art Basel 2019 Highlights
My Late Lunch with Oliver Sacks
A conversation in Elysium — or, rather, the West Village — with the late Oliver Sacks.
Mining Nostalgia
An exhibit of apartheid-era photographs by David Goldblatt presents them without adequate context and loses a huge opportunity.
The Great Deflector
Fran Ross’s mind was shrewd and skewering, and perhaps her writings will never sit easy among those who look for programmatic answers.
A Self Out of the Ashes: A Conversation with Emily Skaja
Sarah Cozort and Christine Guaragno discuss “Brute” with Emily Skaja.
Not in Kansas: On The National’s “I Am Easy to Find”
Cornel Bonca reviews The National’s new album and the Mike Mills movie based on it.
To Better Understand Elizabeth Warren, Try Reading Her Husband
Elizabeth Warren’s husband, the Harvard Law Professor Bruce Mann, thus far in the shadows, illuminates his wife’s thinking through his writing.
On Interracial Love: Why James Baldwin’s “Another Country” Still Matters
"Another Country" does not celebrate interracial love; it suggests only its fragile possibility, showing a racial America stripped bare.
Confronting the Unwatchable
Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Baer on our unwatchable era.
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