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Our October 22 issue is now online, with Gavin Francis on musclemen, Caroline Fraser on hobos, Ben Tarnoff on our digital oligarchs, Alan Hollinghurst on Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, Howard W. French on the Chinese Internet, Matthew Aucoin on Philip Glass, Václav Havel on state repression, Jonathan Lethem on Wilfrid Sheed, Catherine Nicholson on ye olde VDs, Noah Feldman on the dangers of the unitary executive, Marina Warner on Ithell Colquhoun, Lola Seaton on Jonathan Buckley, poems by Ben Lerner and Elaine Equi, and much more.

Noah Feldman
Eradicating the ‘Fourth Branch’

By ending the independence of federal agencies, the Supreme Court has taken another step toward the creation of an elected presidential dictatorship.

Ben Tarnoff
How Tech Rules

The AI boom is only the latest stage in Silicon Valley’s long history of creating and expanding intellectual monopolies.

Alan Hollinghurst
The Elusive Glamour of Peter and Paul

A dual biography of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek is a tantalizing portrait of the artists and their epoch, just before the catastrophe of AIDS.

Caroline Fraser
Boxcar to Nowhere

American lore about hoboes has sugared over the economic and environmental forces that drove people from their homes and onto the rails and roads in the first place, as a new history lays out.

Jonathan Lethem
Second Chances

The reissue of Wilfrid Sheed’s 1966 novel Office Politics, about the dramas of running a literary magazine, raises the question of reprints and their popularity today.

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