Black Atlantics
The scholar Louis Chude-Sokei does the urgent work of reimagining the African diaspora as multiple diasporas.
June 20, 2024 issue
The Tower and the Sewer
Catholic postliberal thinkers opposed to modern liberal individualism are less interested in transforming people’s unhappy lives through the power of the gospel than in jockeying for political power as the vanguard of a conservative revolution.
June 20, 2024 issue
Up on the Roof
Carlos de Beistegui’s Parisian penthouse apartment, designed by Le Corbusier, was the product of two supreme egotists squaring off against each other.
June 20, 2024 issue
Livelier Than the Living
In the Renaissance, reading became both a passion and a pose of detachment—for those who could afford it—from the pursuits of wealth and power.
June 20, 2024 issue
‘You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught’
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, once kings of American culture, invented a new kind of musical theater in shows like Oklahoma!, Carousel, and South Pacific. But by the time of their final work together, a critical backlash had begun.
June 20, 2024 issue
Alice Munro (1931–2024)
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