Our March 27 issue is now online, with Neal Ascherson on everyday Nazis, Laura Marsh on the attention deficit, Martin Filler on British buildings, Ben Tarnoff on the future of AI, Jed Perl on Arlene Croce, Nicole Eustace on America before the Europeans, Jacob Weisberg on Reagan’s dreamworld, Catherine Nicholson on Paradise Lost, David Oshinsky on the advent of the RNA vaccine, Nell Irvin Painter on racial justice upstate, Sally Rooney on the genius of snooker, poems by J.T. Townley and Fady Joudah, and much more.

Sally Rooney
Angles of Approach

Ronnie O’Sullivan is the greatest snooker player in history—what he can do, no one has ever been able to do. And no can even explain how he does it.

Neal Ascherson
Ordinary Germans

We know who the Nazis were and what they did. In Hitler’s People, the distinguished historian Richard J. Evans seeks to explain what made them capable of doing it.

Laura Marsh
A Self Divided

Since the rise of cable TV, corporations have sought to capture our valuable attention. But the way social media shatters our ability to focus has new implications for public discourse and politics.

Jeffrey Toobin
Cases Closed

How would the Mueller investigation have unfolded if the Supreme Court’s recent, chilling Trump v. United States decision been in effect?

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Zadie Smith
‘Trump Gaza Number One’

“For many Americans the wretched are only ever glimpsed IRL during a vacation. Gaza, in this vision, is the same place as Morocco, is the same place as ‘Arabia,’ is the same phantasmagorical place in which Disney set Aladdin.”

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