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A Night at the Library

Andrew Schwartz

October 28, 2019

1. In the early twentieth century, the Brooklyn Library system had numerous Carnegie-funded branches, but, unlike the Manhattan system, then developing its 42nd Street pièce de résistance, it lacked a Central Hub. Some academics and public figures toured France to draw ...

All Right Already

Jacob Silverman

October 28, 2019

The Future Sucked

By now, we know where Facebook’s allegiances lie

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

October 25, 2019

Where There’s Smoko, There’s Fire

Austerity Blues

Meher Ahmad

October 25, 2019

After sixty years of IMF intervention, Pakistan has little to show for it

So Metaphorical

John Semley

October 24, 2019

Parasite, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes (in a reportedly unanimous decision) and was (less unanimously) a finalist for the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, begins in a dead-end. The film opens in a dingy sub-basement at the ass-end of a ...

The Times Takes to TV

Maia Hibbett

October 24, 2019

The Times pursues "all the views that flit from print."

A Cosmopolitan Institution

Richard A. Greenwald

October 23, 2019

John Sexton and the new university

Dust to Dust

David Schurman Wallace

October 23, 2019

The oddly soothing apocalypses of László Krasznahorkai

All the Diplomat’s Women

Rafia Zakaria

October 22, 2019

Alienated

Richard Holbrooke's affairs, foreign and domestic.

Bombs Away

Lorissa Rinehart

October 21, 2019

How ads for drones and military payload delivery systems invaded our timelines

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

October 18, 2019

The Discreet Charm of the Non-Working Billionaire

Stick it to Sports

Shane Burley

October 17, 2019

How soccer supporters’ groups fought the league and won.