Liberal internationalism died in the ruins of Gaza and Beirut. Donald Trump’s return to office has only put a tin plate on the coffin. The doctrine lost all legitimacy through its dependence on ...
In the West Bank, where foreign media can still operate, daily horrors are both more commonplace and less frequent than in ...
“This time is different.” With Donald Trump’s second term off to a roaring, snorting start—a furious dust cloud of ICE raids and ICE-raid photo ops, tariffs announced and then paused, a funding freeze ...
I first encountered Robert Crumb at my local Blockbuster, in the mid-Nineties, when Crumb became available for rental. I wasn’t more than ten at the time, so I didn’t understand that the movie was a ...
From The Rose, which will be published this month by Graywolf Press.
I’m from Kharkiv, a big industrial center in eastern Ukraine. It had been transformed in recent years, before the war—that means good roads, flower beds, lovely parks. It’s beautiful. It hurts me to ...
From “Friends for Now,” which appeared in the April 1982 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive ...
From Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth, by Maggie Nelson, which will be published this month by Wave Books. In speech therapy we played a board game in which to advance you had to say a tongue ...
Audition, by Katie Kitamura. Riverhead Books. 208 pages. $28. One third of the way into Katie Kitamura’s 2017 novel, A Separation, its narrator asks an elderly Greek woman to demonstrate a traditional ...
Photographs by Henry Roy from his retrospective Impossible Island, which is on view through May 18 at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, in Perth. The accompanying monograph was published by the ...