Lula’s Last Dance
Brazil’s once towering leftist leader may soon be swept away by Latin America’s right-wing tide, Ishaan Tharoor writes.
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admin The New Age of Reading
Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of…
Bill Irwin Is the O.G. Clown
Fresh from playing the Cyclops in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” the rubber-limbed actor chats about reviving and starring in Molière’s…
Josh Safdie’s Top Ten (or So) N.Y.C. Films
The director stops by the Two Palms studio to sign prints of a list of his favorite New York movies—“Taxi…
The Communist Thrillers of Anna Seghers
In her tautly suspenseful novels, fugitives stay one step ahead of the Nazis, Alex Ross writes.
Why Can’t You Sit Still?
Joshua Rothman writes about why it can be so hard to sit still, and the usefulness of doing so.
Louise Glück’s Life in Restaurants
Hannah Goldfield on the Nobel Prize-winning poet, who made an art of being a regular.
The Season of Rosalyn Drexler
Leslie Camhi writes that, with the reissue of Drexler’s 1974 novel “The Cosmopolitan Girl,” a gallery show, and a documentary…
The Irish Punks Who Know Their Yeats
Amanda Petrusich writes about Fontaines D.C.’s latest album, “Dopamine Chamber,” and explores how the post-punk band brings a raucous intelligence…
Andre D. Wagner’s Eye for the Photo-Ready
Hanif Abdurraqib on the photographer Andre D. Wagner, who knows the special alchemy that can happen when you point a…