Get Access to Print and Digital for $23.99 per year.
Subscribe for Full Access

Study and teaching

Loaded Questions

From scenarios presented in Fighter Not Killer, an app that is used by militant groups, including the Islamic State, to test combatants’ knowledge of international humanitarian law. The app was…

Read more

Still Life

From exercises designed by Marina Abramovic, a Serbian performance artist, for student workshops that she taught in the 1990s. Abramovic’s memoir, Walk Through Walls, was published in October by Crown…

Read more

The Crying Game

By Mark Morris, from an entry in a symposium on crying that was published in the Fall 2016 issue of The Threepenny Review. Morris is a dancer and choreographer. His…

Read more

The Hamilton Cult

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?

Read more

I Began the Day

By Renee Gladman, from Calamities, a collection of linked essays that was published this month by Wave Books. Gladman is the author of eight works of prose, including the novel…

Read more

The Origins of Speech

In the beginning was Chomsky

Read more

The Neoliberal Arts

How college sold its soul to the market

Read more

Ars Erotica

By Mario Vargas Llosa, from Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society, out next month from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Vargas Llosa, who is the author…

Read more

| View All Issues |

July 2015

Close
“An unexpectedly excellent magazine that stands out amid a homogenized media landscape.” —the New York Times
Subscribe now

Debug