admin The Supreme Court’s Latest Blow to Black Voters’ Rights
Ruth Marcus reports on the Supreme Court’s unsigned order legitimatizing an Alabama congressional-district map that a lower court had claimed…
Ticks to Fear This Summer
Shouts & Murmurs by Jay Ruttenberg: Physically resembling a crossbreed of a gremlin and Stephen Miller’s soul, the Gray-Legged Tick…
Inside the Creative Cavern of JR
Riding in his custom-designed car on the Orient Express, the French artist reflects on his latest large-scale project—turning the Pont…
Kurt Vile Gets the Feeling
On the heels of his tenth album, “Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me,” the musician catches a show at Le Poisson…
Michael Arden Catches a Flight
The theatre director’s latest show, “The Lost Boys,” has its actors dangle high above the stage. At an indoor-skydiving joint,…
From Sturgeon to Knicks Gear, Barney Greengrass Has You Covered
The Upper West Side smoked-fish establishment, beloved by Marilyn Monroe and Irving Berlin, represents the best of New York—great food,…
The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai
Fiction by Jamil Jan Kochai, the author of “99 Nights in Logar”: Fifty years and I dream of him still,…
Firstborn Immigrant Daughter
Fiction by Taiye Selasi, the author of “Ghana Must Go”: Your mother doesn’t want her daughter to be happy. Your…
Did a Rowdy English Nobleman Mastermind the American Revolution?
Adam Gopnik reviews “Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat—and the American Revolution—Transformed Britain,” by Danielle Allen.