Readings — From the January 2019 issue
Swamp Things
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Readings — From the January 2019 issue
Easy Chair — From the March 2018 issue
Report — From the December 2017 issue
Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE
Easy Chair — From the June 2017 issue
Essay — From the November 2016 issue
The media’s extermination of Bernie Sanders, and real reform
Essay — From the November 2016 issue
The changing face of Appalachia—and its role in the presidential race
Readings — From the October 2016 issue
Letter from Los Angeles — From the September 2016 issue
Southern California homeowners vs. nature
Readings — From the August 2016 issue
Readings — From the August 2016 issue
Readings — From the July 2016 issue
Readings — From the March 2016 issue
Readings — From the March 2016 issue
Readings — From the March 2016 issue
Readings — From the March 2016 issue
Miscellany — From the February 2016 issue
The awful seduction of the British monarchy
Essay — From the October 2015 issue
A progressive defense of respectability politics
On February 5, 2019, the president of the United States (a certain Donald Trump) in his State of the Union speech warned of “migrant caravans and accused Mexican cities of busing migrants to the border ‘to bring them up to our country in areas where there is little border protection.’ ”? Wishing to see the border for myself, I decided to visit Arizona, where my ignorance of local conditions might save me from prejudgment.
On a November Saturday in 1990, Pam went over to Joe’s place to listen to records. It was raining in sheets that whipped around the corners of buildings and blowing so hard that women in heels were taking men’s arms to cross the street. Cars were plowing bow waves through puddles of scum.
As Joe was letting Pam into the apartment, a man emerged from the bedroom with a square sheet of black plastic in his hand and said, “Hey, man, you have the Sassy Sonic Youth flexi!”
Discussed in this essay:
Stalingrad, by Vasily Grossman. Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler. New York Review Books. 1,088 pages. $27.95.
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century, by Alexandra Popoff. Yale University Press. 424 pages. $32.50.
Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman. Translated by Robert Chandler. New York Review Books. 904 pages. $24.95.
An Armenian Sketchbook, by Vasily Grossman. Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler. New York Review Books. 160 pages. $14.95.
Cost of renting a giant panda from the Chinese government, per day:
A recent earthquake in Chile was found to have shifted the city of Concepción ten feet to the west, shortened Earth’s days by 1.26 microseconds, and shifted the planet’s axis by nearly three inches.
A swarm of ladybugs in California was so large that it appeared on the National Weather Service’s radar.
“Nowadays, most states let just about anybody who wants a concealed-handgun permit have one; in seventeen states, you don’t even have to be a resident. Nobody knows exactly how many Americans carry guns, because not all states release their numbers, and even if they did, not all permit holders carry all the time. But it’s safe to assume that as many as 6 million Americans are walking around with firearms under their clothes.”
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