Erdoğan’s Flights of Fancy
From the outset, Erdoğan’s big infrastructure programs have been interesting for their interaction with democracy: at their best, as with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and...
How Republicans Became Anti-Choice
It is impossible to understand American politics of the past half-century without taking abortion into account. The Brett Kavanaugh charade most recently, the machinations of the...
What Thucydides Knew About the US Today
Historians argue among themselves whether Thucydides is a moralizing philosopher or, in a common phrase, “the first scientific historian.” What is radical about him, and gives...
Llansol, Poet of the Posthumous
To read Geography of Rebels is to wonder whether a work such as this, with its severed body parts and abruptly truncated sentences, could have ever been...
Sally Mann’s Dark Diary of the South
Sally Mann’s images counter a saccharine, naive notion of childhood and show how children’s lives can be fraught with violence, shame, confusion, and fear, as well...
The Bedouins of al-Khan al-Ahmar Halt the Bulldozers of Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reaffirmed his commitment to the ultimate destruction of al-Khan al-Ahmar. But already it can be said that a small group...
I Will Not Be an Invisible Trans Woman
I understand the betrayal of a flag that James Baldwin describes—this way that you can live in a country and have the profoundest sense that it...
The Concrete Jungle
Menno Schilthuizen is a Dutch biologist based at Leiden University, in a country whose population is more urban than rural. In other words, he inhabits the...
Communing with Mrs. Gaskell
It is a gift to allow someone to make public their half of a two-sided story. I have accepted it nonetheless—the book is now out in...
Abbott’s Absence
To the Editors: In her review of Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography, Regina Marler claims that Abbott does not appear in Man Ray’s autobiography, Self-Portrait...
