It is easy to say the wrong thing on a foreign visit, especially if you are President Donald Trump. It is even easier if you deal with your own lack of knowledge, as he does, by resorting to absolutes. On Tuesday, Trump appeared at a press conference with Theresa May, who is the Prime Minister […]
For a movie that’s rooted in personal experience, “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” is strangely vague. For one that’s based on physical labor, it is oddly lacking a sense of texture and effort. For one that’s rooted in observation of a specific place, it’s disorientingly dematerialized. The film is a prime example of […]
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Thirty years later, June 4, 1989, remains the most unspeakable date in modern Chinese history. It was on that morning that the People’s Liberation Army opened fire on civilian protesters who had been gathering for weeks in Tiananmen Square, in the center of Beijing, to call for political reform. Hundreds, if not thousands, were killed, […]
Click:辦公室出租 “To be alive and sick is a far more complex endeavor than we like to admit,” Esmé Weijun Wang wrote in an essay for Catapult, in 2016. Wang would know: as a teen in the Bay Area, in 2001, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Twelve years later—eight years after her first auditory hallucination—she […]
It has become fashionable to hate the late Yugoslavia, or to diagnose it retroactively as a kind of Frankenstein assemblage of mismatched parts whose dissolution was thus inescapable and inevitably bloody. But, a few decades from now, when some historian on a think-tank sinecure looks at the devastation in America left in the wake of […]
Last Thursday, Donald Trump ignored the advice of some of his senior advisers—including the Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and the U.S. Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer—and threatened to impose tariffs of up to twenty-five per cent on imports from Mexico. The very next day, Kevin Hassett, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, who has […]
On Friday afternoon, a longtime employee of the city of Virginia Beach—an engineer in the public-utilities department—entered the municipal complex where he worked with a .45-calibre handgun and began shooting. According to the authorities, at least a dozen people, on three floors of the building and in a car outside, were killed, along with […]
Roky Erickson, a guitarist and singer in the 13th Floor Elevators, a foundational psych-rock group from Texas, died on Friday. The cause of death was not immediately announced, but Erickson had a long history of health troubles. In 1968, when he was just twenty-one, he was institutionalized for paranoid schizophrenia, and he received electroconvulsive therapy […]
Ever since my early teens, I have had two obsessions: music and journalism. When I was a senior at Hudson Catholic Regional High School for Boys, in Jersey City, in 1982, I took a journalism class, and the teacher assigned us to interview “a chosen hero in your field.” I picked the rock critic Lester […]