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Our August 20 issue—the Summer Issue—is now online, with Daniel Mendelsohn on Christopher Nolan’s “drearily sepia-toned” Odyssey, Michael Greenberg on the DSA ascendant, Alma Guillermoprieto on reconnecting with Frida Kahlo, Mark Danner on Trump in decline, Anahid Nersessian on Jorie Graham’s unflinching poetry, Laura Marsh on John Lanchester’s deranged domestic novel, David Cole on the Supreme Court’s power grab, Dan Chiasson on an “astonishing” Fairfield Porter show, poems by Anne Carson and Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and much more.

Michael Greenberg
Whose Party?

As Democratic Socialists rack up primary victories, the moderate wing of the Democratic Party looks increasingly out of touch.

Anahid Nersessian
Refusing to Look Away

In Killing Spree, the poet Jorie Graham pursues an essentially ethical impulse to find a true language for the evil in the world.

Daniel Mendelsohn
Artful Weaving

The most authentic thing about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is its densely braided narrative, but its tormented hero sounds like the heroes of Christopher Nolan movies.

Zoom

a poem by
Anne Carson

Waiting for a call that didn’t happen
I am sitting on the back porch with Frank O’Hara
(Collected)
when a goldfinch lands beside my head on the porch
rail,
lands so neatly so instantly so whoosh
with all his yellowness yellowing…

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Alisa Solomon
‘Take that Phony Dream and Burn It’

The latest Death of a Salesman shows how America’s empty promises can turn hope into reactionary ressentiment.

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