The Eye of the Beholder
May 27, 2021
Encounters with art in Second Place and beyond
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The Cop Did It
May 26, 2021
Powerful citizens are usually above suspicion.
A Fierce and Violent Land
May 24, 2021
An excerpt from Sergio González Rodríguez’s “El hombre sin cabeza.”
Fresh Hell
May 21, 2021
We Love the Gays! But Only When the Gays Are Nice!
Over the years, the New York Times has worked hard to build up a rapport with a certain subset of the homosexual community: those cash-flush and coddled specimens bred to flash their immaculate dental work in wedding ...
Irreconcilable Billionaires
Bill Gates and the myths of the generous philanthropist.
New Problems, Old Ideas
May 20, 2021
Nayib Bukele dismantles El Salvador’s fledgling democracy.
In Fury We Trust
May 20, 2021
The popular origin story of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power has a mythic quality to it. In March 1987, the writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron cancelled her planned talk at the Lesbian and Gay Center in New York. To fill in, organizers tapped Larry Kramer, author of the ...
She Stays Winning
May 19, 2021
A genre of “feminist” filmmaking conflates suffering and empowerment.
Building from the Rubble
May 19, 2021
Palestinian resistance and the road to liberation
Narrative Napalm
May 17, 2021
Malcolm Gladwell’s apologia for American butchery.
Fresh Hell
May 14, 2021
Dropping the Psaki Bomb
Slumber Party
Short fiction by Madeline Cash.