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Not All MenTwo years ago, a production company posted an ad on Craigslist seeking subjects for a documentary about jury duty. One of the thousands of people...
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Jammin’ in the Panoram“Soundies”—the three-minute musical films made for a bare six years in the 1940s and shown in bars, taverns, and bus stations—are relics of...
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Guardian of MemoryFifty years ago this month, Augusto Pinochet, the commander-in-chief of the Chilean army, led a US-backed military coup to overthrow Salvador...
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Spored to DeathIn March 2007 some wildlife biologists drove out to a cave near Albany, New York, to count bats. New York is home to six species of Chiroptera...
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Ships Going OutIn a series of lectures he delivered at the University of Sussex in 1963, the eminent British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper denounced undergraduates...
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neap tide—autumnthe tidal forest is the wholepresent tense—the first winter fullmoon in october gossamer overcastthe wind catches—one tree & then the next—a...
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UnfrozenThis past spring a science museum in Amsterdam unveiled an unusual exhibit: a giant meatball created with DNA from the woolly mammoth. The work of...
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A Brief EfflorescenceIn the late 1990s, sitting at my computer in New Delhi, using a sputtering dial-up connection, I discovered rollingstone.com, NME.com,...
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An Overabundance of VirtueThe Sienese political theorist Francesco Patrizi wrote in 1471 that a republic’s strength was in its numbers: a popular government can “see with...
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Seeing Was Not BelievingIt is no secret that the news media are in crisis, with troubling implications for American democracy. Jobs for reporters are scarce, partly...
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The AnalystIn Familiar Stranger, Stuart Hall’s memoir (written in conversation with Bill Schwarz), which was published in 2017, three years after he died,...
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Better, Faster, StrongerBefore California was a place, it was an idea. A rocky island, inhabited by Black women, filled with gold—this was the first California, as...
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The Modern HephaestusThe sculpture of David Smith is dramatic, impassioned. Smith was willing to try just about anything in a career that extended from the 1930s to...
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The Trouble with AncestryGenealogy is fun, but it has never been an entirely innocent pastime. The establishment (or fabrication) of pedigrees has been essential to the...
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The RescueYou are afraid to be touched becauseand that’s a reasonable fear, a woman oncebrushed past me in the aisleor stairs, I’ve repressed the...
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Playing with the PastI don’t remember much about our day at Stowe, whether it was rainy or dry, where we parked, what the road from Oxford was like. The house was...
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Poems to Wake the CorpsesAside from the fact that they’re all dead, the women of Surrealism have had a banner couple of years. In 2021 Leonora Carrington’s novel The...
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Why Aren’t Cops Held to Account?In 1987 lawyers for a Black inmate on Georgia’s death row presented the Supreme Court with evidence of the extreme racial disparity in the state’s...
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Vibrant, Cacophonous BuddhismIn 2003 Indian archaeologists working on a remote hilltop in the southern state of Telangana uncovered a remarkable early Buddhist monastic...
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Growing Up on Moan StreetThe high-speed train from Naples to Rome takes a little over an hour and costs about ten euros; you can run up for a breakfast meeting and still...
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A Cockeyed Faith in Better MenIt would be easy, if you were a person who read women often but spoke to them rarely, to imagine that contemporary women hate men. Scholars write...
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A Reconfigured SelfMusic and literature give shape to young people’s identities as they begin to build libraries of their interests. In the late 1970s in the UK,...
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Jean Eustache’s Vehement Realism“In all my films, there is a suicide,” the French director Jean Eustache claimed upon discovering that his former girlfriend had killed herself...
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Defending AllendeOn September 4, 1973, an enormous multitude of Chileans—I was one of them—poured into the streets of Santiago to back the besieged government of...
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Try This at HomeTo the Editors: If I read Catherine Nicholson correctly [“Right Busy with Sticks and Spales,” NYR, June 22], she lists “conkers” among the...
