March 12, 2026 Issue

Carolina A. Miranda

Poisonous Objects

Two exhibitions in Los Angeles respond to the racist monuments to Confederate soldiers that have been erected all over the United States.

MONUMENTS

an exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick, Los Angeles, October 23, 2025–May 3, 2026

Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began

an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 12, 2025–March 29, 2026

David Shulman

Evil in the West Bank

As long as the daily horrors in the occupied territories continue and the extreme right remains in power, democracy in Israel will be sick at the core.

Colin Grant

In A House for Miss Pauline, the Jamaican novelist Diana McCaulay examines her family’s shadowy history by telling the story of a woman who builds her house with the remains of the manor of a former slave plantation.

A House for Miss Pauline

by Diana McCaulay

Tim Judah

A Bitter Winter in Ukraine

Four years after their full-scale invasion, the Russians are trying to freeze Ukraine into submission by relentlessly attacking the country’s energy grid.

Chloe Wilson

Jason Statham Asks Nothing of Me

a poem

Edward Mendelson

Deeper Than They Thought

Although Margaret Kennedy has been largely forgotten as a popular writer, in her novels she wielded the most cunning techniques of literary modernism.

The Feast

by Margaret Kennedy

Troy Chimneys

by Margaret Kennedy

Thomas Powers

A Real Live Socialist

What Bernie Sanders brought to the job of mayor of Burlington and what he did with it help explain what matters to him and how he fits into American political argument.

Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician and the Transformation of One American Place

by Dan Chiasson

Sophie Pinkham

The Poet’s Double

In the early years of the Soviet Union, Konstantin Vaginov wrote fiction and poetry characterized by a sense of doubleness, ambiguity, and perverse humor.

Goat Song and The Works and Days of Whistlin

by Konstantin Vaginov, translated from the Russian by Ainsley Morse with Geoff Cebula, with an introduction by Eugene Ostashevsky

Alec Wilkinson

The Wandering Physicist

Luis Alvarez brought a scientific pragmatism to many of the twentieth century’s greatest mysteries, including the secrets of pyramids, the Kennedy assassination, and the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs

by Alec Nevala-Lee

Linda Greenhouse

As Kennedy Went

Justice Anthony Kennedy often confounded Supreme Court observers with his seemingly unpredictable opinions, but during the years when a majority could be achieved only through some measure of compromise, he wielded enormous power over the Constitution’s contemporary meaning.

Life, Law and Liberty

by Anthony M. Kennedy

Magda Teter

‘An Entirely New Domain of Knowledge’

The Torah scholars who came to be called “rabbis” emerged as figures of authority after the destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 CE and the later exile of Jews from Judaea—and created Judaism’s founding literature.

How Rabbis Became Experts: Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity

by Krista N. Dalton

Christopher Benfey

Road Trippers

In a thirty-three-day ramble along the Hudson and Connecticut Rivers in 1791, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison encountered many of the issues that would end up plaguing the United States.

A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship

by Louis P. Masur

Stephanie Burt

Sappho 27

a poem

Marina Harss

Alexei Ratmansky’s Leap of Faith

Having wrested himself from Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, the great choreographer has sought to remake himself and his work in Denmark.

The Art of the Fugue

a ballet by Alexei Ratmansky at the Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen, November 1–18, 2025

Joshua Hammer

Paths of Resistance

Those who challenged the Nazi regime knew they were almost certainly doomed to failure. What roused them from complacency to defiance?

The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany—and the Spy Who Betrayed Them

by Jonathan Freedland

The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp

by Lynne Olson

The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising

by Elizabeth R. Hyman

Anjan Sundaram

‘We Think They’ll Kill Someone’

Indigenous communities in Mexico who oppose the construction of megaprojects on their lands do so at great risk.

Elaine Blair

Gaslight

The case of Gisèle Pelicot, who for more than a decade was violated by her husband and dozens of other men, should mark the end of the regime that puts on women the responsibility for avoiding assault.

A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides

by Gisèle Pelicot with Judith Perrignon, translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer and Ruth Diver

Issue Details

Cover art
Aubrey Levinthal: Coat Zipper, 2024 (Jens Ziehe/Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin)

Series art
Simone Goder: Keine Worte, 2025