Spotlight
14 Novels of Love Gone Wrong
Relationships doomed, damned, or otherwise disappointing
by Our Editors | Thursday, February 11, 2016
Smarty Pants Podcast
1221
Understanding the military coup in Myanmar
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, February 12, 2021
Shelf Life
The Word—and Weird—of God
An excerpt from A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible by Kristen Swenson
by Jayne Ross | Thursday, February 11, 2021
Read Me a Poem
“Love at First Sight” by Wislawa Szymborska
Poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 09, 2021
Book Reviews
Cultural or Criminal?
How to explain Texas’s hunger for executions
by Lincoln Caplan | Monday, February 08, 2021
Portrait of the Artist
Erin Lynn Welsh
In the flowers, in the flames
by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, February 08, 2021
Smarty Pants Podcast
Home Alone, with 200,000 Friends
Coming to terms with the critters we live with
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, February 05, 2021
Talking Pictures
A Reluctant Spy's Conversion
Revisiting George Seaton’s underrated 1962 film, The Counterfeit Traitor
by David Lehman | Thursday, February 04, 2021
Read Me a Poem
“Miniature Snowstorm” by Rosamund Stanhope
Poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, February 02, 2021
Current Issue
“History shows that many—perhaps millions—of Americans have at one time invented or accessorized a past to clean up the family genealogy.”—Nancy Isenberg, “White, Whiteness, Whitewash”
Plus: T. M. Luhrmann on the exvangelical movement, Joseph Horowitz on the future of the performing arts, and Sierra Bellows on conceptual art for the Covid Era
Article
Our Revels Now Are Ended
What the pandemic portends for the performing arts in America
by Joseph Horowitz
Letter From
New Orleans: Vanishing Graves
Holt Cemetery has been filled to capacity many times over; each gravesite has been used for dozens of burials
by Charlie Lee
Arts
Long-Distance Punishment
Could a landmark work of conceptual art be an emblem for the Covid era?
by Sierra Bellows
The Word—and Weird—of God
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An excerpt from A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible by Kristen Swenson
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