Our October 17 issue is now online, with Jessica T. Mathews on the new nuclear arms race, Peter E. Gordon on music after the Holocaust, Gary Younge on the UK riots, Aryeh Neier on Israel’s inhumane prisons, Carolina Miranda on cowboys, Clare Bucknell on Daniel Defoe, Samuel Earle on the problem with polls, Anahid Nersessian on Fady Joudah’s poetry after October 7, Colin Thubron on open borders, Verlyn Klinkenborg on the state of the oceans, David S. Reynolds on Ulysses S. Grant’s fight against the Klan, Simon Callow on Richard Sennett, poems by Frances Leviston and Caleb Crain, and much more.

Jessica T. Mathews
The Race That Can’t Be Won

A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one.

Aryeh Neier
Torture in Israel’s Prisons

Recent reports on the conditions in Israeli detention facilities describe them as sites of systematic abuse.

Colin Thubron
The Artificiality of Nations

Two recent books advance compassionate cases against the cruelty of closed borders.

Christopher Tayler
‘The Death of Some Ideal’

The Irish novelist Anne Enright writes with great prowess and wit about women who make a virtue of getting on with things.

Clare Bucknell
The Fact Man

At the heart of Daniel Defoe’s fictional world is a feeling for change, of the mutability and shiftiness of modern life and the people who thrive in it.

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