Archive: Aug 2013

A poison-gas attack in Syria, a verdict in the Manning trial, and wing-walker Flame Brewer

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"Relationship #5," a photograph by Nikolay Bakharev, whose work was featured in the Readings section of our September 2013 issue. On view in July at Julie Saul Gallery in New York…

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“The FBI operative in New Haven who wrote my forensic profile possessed some talent with words and turned his phrases with apparent pleasure.”

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How the junior senator from Kentucky motivated the Obama Administration to forgo mandatory minimum sentences

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On inspiring (probably, maybe) a Newsroom plot arc

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The case against Algebra II, the FBI’s file on William T. Vollmann, and our new Washington correspondent 

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The author obtains his FBI file and discovers a case largely based on literary criticism

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From Baghdad to the Menard County Fair

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The Mexican government announces a state of emergency following a mass shrimp die-off in the Sea of Cortez

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“We ‘squeeze, and then squeeze some more’ with no end in sight.”

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“We are cautious,” said General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, “about every drop of Egyptian blood.”

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“Life’s prerequisites are courtesy and kindness, the times tables, fractions, percentages, ratios, reading, writing, some history — the rest is gravy, really.”

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Food cart, Cairo, November 2011, a painting by Rebecca Bird, whose work was featured in the Readings section of our September 2013 issue. Bird's work will be on view next year…

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Dubious sources feed national-security reporter Eli Lake a fraudulent story for political purposes — once again

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The foolish free-trade sophistry of Thomas Friedman

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What can we do to address the collapsing global fishery?

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Revisiting Richard Linklater's Waking Life

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On the possibility of a new Detroit

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"Storm Over Field, Lake Pointsett, South Dakota, 2010," a photograph by Mitch Dobrowner, whose work was featured in the Readings section of our August 2013 issue. Dobrowner's new monograph Storms will be published next…

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The U.S. government responds to an alleged terrorist plot, Ramadan ends in violence in parts of the Muslim world, and Swedish men guard their testicles from pacu fish

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How will the Obama Administration handle Edward Snowden’s case in the long term?

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“Oil and Water: Extracting Petroleum, Exterminating Nature,” by Jakob Rosenzweig (cartography) and Jacqueline Bishop (artwork). This map was produced for Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, co-edited by Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca…

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Rebecca Solnit on how personal stories can fail to satisfy, the architectural space of the book, and the pleasures with which the landscapes of our lives are salted

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"Untitled #4 (Flux series)," a photograph by Karine Laval, whose work was featured in the Readings section of our August 2013 issue. An exhibition of Laval's work was on view in May…

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Zimbabwe re-elects Robert Mugabe, a fatwa against croissants, and a lemonade-stand robbery at BB-gunpoint

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"0232," a photograph from Linda Fregni Nagler's series The Hidden Mother, which was featured in the Readings section of our August 2013 issue. All 997 daguerreotypes, tintypes, and albumen prints that…

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Ben Stroud on getting to know a character, the balance between research and imagination, and the writer’s desire for recognition

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