Questioning Desire
Second-wave feminism was a movement with many fronts: antidiscrimination and legal equality; subsidized child care; health care and reproductive rights; the prevention and prosecution of domestic...
Xanadu’s Architect
1. Half a century ago, second-wave feminism swelled into a social tsunami that wrought profound changes in American life. Among them was a concerted effort to...
Outdoing Reality
The Lockheed Martin Hellfire 114 R9X, nicknamed the “ninja bomb” or the “flying Ginsu,” is an air-to-surface, drone-launched missile, approximately five feet long and seven inches...
Where Does the Buck Stop?
Midway through Hernan Diaz’s wondrous new novel, Trust, a wealthy financier sits at a desk, looking out of a high-rise window at a welder, suspended on...
It’s Not Easy Being Green
What will we be eating in the future? Will it be wholesome, locally grown organic produce or some Soylent Green–like nightmare food? The only certainty, George...
Little Emperor of Solstice
Doing this and that, further shredded by ribbonsI’m your inner child from beforethe procedure of ambition I ran the neighborhood on training wheelsHeavy rubberized pastel flowed...
Disaster Was Her Element
I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure…. I will not have earned death. —Jean Rhys There isn’t an...
Their Glorious Façades
Gavin Lambert’s The Goodby People is set during the inexhaustibly fascinating few years preceding its original publication in 1971, in the city of Los Angeles, where...
A Doctor and a Scientist Write to Remember
Under a microscope, a virus looks like nothing; it’s too small for a conventional microscope to see. Under an electron microscope, coronaviruses look like a crown:...
Lust, Rivalry, and Ambition Culminate in a Betrayal at an Elite Art School
Set on the idyllic New England campus of an elite art school called Wrynn, and situated against the backdrop of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Antonia...
