Author: Rafia Zakaria

Columns

The Jihadist Personal Essay

Rafia Zakaria

September 20, 2017

The personal essay survives, it has simply moved house. Its new and surprising habitat is the jihadist magazine.

The Past Is a Foreign Agent

J.W. McCormack

September 19, 2017

The maestro of spy fiction mourns our geopolitical malaise.

A Wonk on the Wild Side

Chris Lehmann

September 18, 2017

Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" is less a campaign postmortem than a wonk’s lament.

An Uneven Disaster

Zachariah Webb

September 15, 2017

A Q&A with Ashley Dawson, author of "Extreme Cities."

Tragic Kingdom

Niela Orr

September 14, 2017

HBO’s The Deuce traces exploitation in the porn industry back to 1970s Times Square—before its total Disneyfication.

Mark Lilla’s Comfort Zone

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

September 14, 2017

How liberal discourse flattens out the work of critical race analysis.

Tears of a Crazy Clown

Judy Berman

September 12, 2017

Is “Twin Peaks: The Return” a masterpiece of thwarted nostalgia or a sentimental joyride?

You Are Not a Rebel

Laurie Penny

September 11, 2017

The new far right has recognized the enduring appeal of adventurism and appropriated its rhetoric for reactionary ends. 

Verrit Choly and the Infinite Sadness

David V. Johnson

September 11, 2017

Peter Daou and fellow #StillWithHer Hillary supporters suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and they are far from alone.

DACApocalypse Now

Matt Cameron

September 08, 2017

DACA was no DREAM. It was, at best, one of those restless afternoon naps one sometimes takes on a bad day hoping to wake up to something better.

A Farewell to the Impossible Kyrie Irving

Hanif Abdurraqib

September 08, 2017

Let it first be said that The Shot was always going to go in. The shot that unfurled from Kyrie Irving’s fingertips through the air inside Oracle Arena at the tail end of the 2016 NBA Finals was destined to find a home at the bottom of the net. The Cleveland Cavaliers had come ...

The Gray Place

Sam Kriss

September 07, 2017

So, you've died with all of humanity in a vast nuclear apocalypse. It was not the madness of your leaders that brought you here.