The Many Faces of Brian Kemp
October 11, 2022
Georgia’s governor is a canny political operator.
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Fresh Hell
October 07, 2022
Mastodon and Servant
The world has been a little more lonely since the extinction of the great auk, sabre-toothed tiger, and dodo, but a Dallas-based biotech company has announced plans to defy the survival of the fittest and resurrect the wooly mammoth—with the Tasmanian ...
In the Red Zone
Who will lead the long project of rebuilding the Democratic Party?
Constantine Cavafy, Influencer
October 06, 2022
A poet for the Very Online.
Either Freedom or Death
October 05, 2022
Turkey and Greece are locked in a long and fragile stalemate.
Annie Ernaux’s Total Novel of Life
October 03, 2022
On the French writer’s revelatory diaries.
Fresh Hell
September 30, 2022
Unchecked Power and Infinite Breadsticks
In a bold stroke for gender parity, Italy elected a woman to the office of despotic, far-right, fascist-by-any-other-name head of government. Prime minister-elect Giorgia Meloni is already a nightmare prospect of a world leader, ...
Headscarf Games
Another victory for a celebrity television feminist.
You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow
Aging: how to cope with it?
Difficult People
September 29, 2022
The all-too-human novels of Gwendoline Riley.
Inside Baseball
September 28, 2022
Chronicling the national game—and a changing nation.
The Sun Goeth Down
September 27, 2022
Jon Raymond approaches doomsday literature from aslant.