The Promise of Polarization
Ideological division was once seen as the solution to America’s political gridlock. What went wrong?
Books and Arts
A Cut Above
The liberating disjointedness of Diane Williams’s very short stories
A War Without Civilian Deaths?
What arguments for a more humane approach to war conceal
Hearing Secret Harmonies
How Anthony Powell chronicled the curiously languid world of the English middle class
The Good Place Comes Down to Earth
The show's third season illuminates the hard work of living a better life.
Simon Says
How the erstwhile producer of a Spice Girls knockoff revived American criticism.
From the Stacks: “My Life With R.H. Macy”
December 22, 1941
