The View from Here
The assassination attempts on Donald Trump show that history is made not just by great men and women but also by insignificant ones
The View from Here
Blocking traffic. Throwing soup at the Mona Lisa. Lighting oneself on fire. Radical acts of protest are guaranteed to make headlines. But do they work?
The Question of Violence
Hamas’s October 7 attack has made a new biography of Frantz Fanon, the formidable and incendiary theorist of decolonization, all too timely
People Who Don’t Need People
A growing number of transhumanists and radical environmentalists believe our days as a species are numbered. And they feel fine
Broken Images
T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” is the rare modernist masterpiece that still feels modern
Never Again
With his latest epic historical documentary, Ken Burns enters a very contemporary debate
Cosmic Chaos
Isaac Asimov’s epic Foundation series comes to Apple TV+
Stories We Tell
The most erudite man in Italy, Roberto Calasso lived for literature—and re-invented it
Is Unorthodox Inauthentic?
A dissenting take on the popular Netflix mini-series, one among a growing genre of escape-from-Judaism stories
Vive Maigret!
The complete adventures of Georges Simenon’s beloved inspector are now available in one stylish set
