Commentary
Two powerufl volumes show that Ukraine’s greatest weapons against Russia are hope and unity.
Fearless Women is so well-written, so well researched, and so engaging that you will find it of real value even as it tells some stories you thought you already knew.
Blake Maddux talks to Peniel Joseph about his latest book, “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.”
The road to ultimate destruction is lined by spiritual apathy, intellectual carelessness, and moral equivalency.
Our last Mississippi destination was a major reason for my trip South. I told Bob I wanted to see the boyhood home of Elvis Presley in the small town of Tupelo, the singer’s Bethlehem.
Guns, anti-Semitism, paranoid conspiracy theories — it never gets old.
It’s hard to think of music that is more foolishly impractical than jazz, even with its pursuit of lofty ideals.
Jess Walter is a writer capable of inspecting humanity’s foolishness and foul play, but he is rarely unkind to his dimmest characters. Even sociopaths get to explain what is going on in their minds.
How does Thomas Mann’s grandiosity hold up today? A new selection of his short stories, freshly translated by veteran translator and fiction writer Damion Searls suggests an answer, though only partially.
Arts Commentary: The Goldsmith-Warhol Copyright Decision — Reason to be Concerned
Decisions like these are increasingly troublesome because they will dictate what constitutes”fair use” for decades to come, even as technology evolves in threatening ways.
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