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Culture Desk
Slavery’s Shadow Storiesby Annette Gordon-Reed
Slave narratives present special problems to historians. Can we know that accounts like Solomon Northrup’s "Twelve Years a Slave" are reliable?
The Sporting Scene
What’s in a Beard?by Richard Brody
For an athlete, it suggests a return to the feral ferocity of primitive men in confrontation with the elements…
Rational Irrationality
America’s Declining Futureby John Cassidy
In basic literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving skills, young Americans have now fallen behind almost all of their peers in other advanced countries…
Our Local Correspondents
New York’s
Hidden Shameby Ian Frazier
There are more homeless people in the five boroughs than there have been in decades. What has gone wrong?
Page-Turner
Tell Me, O Memeby Kenneth Goldsmith
While poetry as we’ve known it has become culturally marginal, the Internet is producing more extreme forms of modernism than modernism ever dreamed of…
The Latest
10/23 10:00 PM
Is Ad Avoidance a Problem?
The argument is pretty simple: if you destroy the advertising revenue that content depends on, we’ll end up in cultural wasteland,
10/23 9:54 PM
When Is a Medical Treatment Unnecessary?
Why might patients with stable disease receive a stent when there is no evidence that it will make them live longer?
10/23 7:09 PM
Manchester, So Much to Answer For
“Autobiography,” connected to Morrissey’s various revelations and non-revelations, is at once impenetrable and poetic.
10/23 5:39 PM
Measuring America’s Decline, in Three Charts
Taken together, these education statistics vividly illustrate some of the challenges facing an economic hegemon plagued by wage stagnation and rising
10/23 4:29 PM
Slavery’s Shadow
As powerful as they are, slave narratives are often said to raise special concerns as items of historical evidence.
10/23 4:27 PM
Sketchbook: Mr. Prince
Mr. Prince has been feeding his Bed-Stuy neighbors food from his garden for nearly thirty-eight years. It’s a word-of-mouth operation, and
10/23 4:13 PM
From Beantown to Beardtown
The author’s ungroomed beard should make it obvious which team he’s rooting for in the World Series.
Editors’ Choice
A Reporter at Large
The Great Tyrannosaur Heistby Paige Williams
A Florida man’s curious trade in dinosaurs.
Letter from Moscow
The Bolshoi’s Danse Macabreby David Remnick
Behind the acid attack at the ballet company.
