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Regarding the Pain of Others

Nathaniel Friedman

November 08, 2017

Gordon Hayward's leg injury forces us to admit that we might die any day now, for no good reason, at exactly the wrong time in our lives.

Signs and Blunders

Judy Berman

November 08, 2017

Martin McDonagh's "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" finds moral complexity where it needed moral certitude.

The Usual Suspects

Jacob Bacharach

November 07, 2017

The Kevin Spacey scandal highlights the problem of “the open secret.”

Is Anyone Relating?

Niela Orr

November 06, 2017

Bread and Circuses

Lady Dynamite’s Maria Bamford confronts our financial anxieties, which are exacerbated by the famous and wealthy.

Joe Ricketts, Media Destroyer

Dave Colon

November 06, 2017

As the old refrain goes, at Gothamist and DNAinfo the union made us strong---not Joe Ricketts, not his money, not his decisions and certainly not his “direction.”

Weekly Bafflements

The Baffler

November 03, 2017

Your boss doesn’t care about you. In a move that’s brazenness is only rivaled by its dickishness, billionaire Joe Ricketts opted to shut down local news outlets Gothamist and DNAinfo rather than allow his employees to unionize.   Tumblr is truly wild. There’s is no ...

Reverse Robin Hoods

Max B. Sawicky

November 03, 2017

Tax reform is but one gust in the current hurricane of news flashes, but it may prove to have very long-lasting effects.

Spielberg’s Children

Jonathon Sturgeon

November 02, 2017

The Immediate Experience

In the HBO special "Spielberg," the subject is hard to know but it's not hard to know why: it all goes back to his childhood.

Maneka’s Punk Pulpit

G’Ra Asim

November 02, 2017

Devin McKnight's new project asks if a racial slur can ever be weaponized to redistributive ends.

Belladonna

Daša Drndić

November 01, 2017

Fiction

Through the closed windows enter gigantic crabs. We’re Stalin’s crabs, they say, we’re the Red Army of Stalin’s crabs, red royal crabs.

What the Bolsheviks Saw

Siddhartha Deb

November 01, 2017

Contraband

A re-imagining of the events of October 1917, by one of one of the edgiest and most political of writers working today.

Re-defining Manhood

Kevin Powell

October 31, 2017

As I've watched the Weinstein saga unfold, I cannot help but think of my mother.