Joaquin Phoenix (left) and Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master / The Weinstein Company
A Love Story
Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master explores the core of all human intimacy, the feeling of having found someone who understands you.
Alan A. Stone
E-Disharmony?
The Atlantic says online dating is threatening monogamy. Don’t believe it.
Claude Fischer
The Turnout Mystery
How did Barack Obama regain the presidency with such low voter participation?
Stephen Ansolabehere
news
The New York Times’s Green Blog calls Kerry Emanuel’s BR book “the single best thing written about climate change for a general audience.”
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Votes Behind Bars
The United States is the only advanced democracy that disenfranchises citizens for criminal convictions.
Pamela S. Karlan
Roger Clay, president of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, discusses the challenges of economic equity at Stanford’s Center for Ethics in Society. (Nov. 15)
essays
A March to the Grave
Joseph Roth and the End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Roger Boylan
Son of Mary
Reflections on the Muslim Jesus
Haroon Moghul—Web only
The Next Left
An Interview with Bhaskar Sunkara
Jake Blumgart—Web only
Free Market Fairness
Is There a Moral Case for Free Markets?
Martin O’Neill and Thad Williamson
Dragon’s Blood
My Jewish father’s turn to Chinese food.
Sidney W. Mintz
Submitting to the Law of Nations
Palestine, Israel, and the International Criminal Court
David Luban—Web only
fiction
It’s a Small World
Love, lust, and intrigue in the Magic Kingdom
Ariel Dorfman
Pirouette
My dad lived in Belize with a Russian ballerina. They grew chocolate beans before anyone else knew what organic meant.
Scott Marengo
Sites of Interest: Boston Smarts
Forums
Sweet Forgiveness
Debt relief is fair and good for the economy.
State of the Nation
Big Organic
Who owns your favorite organic brands?
Wenonah Hauter
Tax and Cut
How Americans think we should fix the budget
Stephen Ansolabehere
poetry
Wake
Molly Minturn
A Parable
Anna Maria Hong—Web only
The Suffering of Others
Jorie Graham’s PLACE
David Micah Greenberg
Station and Là
Andrew Zawacki
Echoes
I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women
Lindsay Turner
Recent History
John Ashbery
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On Film
Black Like Me
In 2016: Obama’s America, Dinesh D’Souza promises to uncover the president’s psyche. But it’s D’Souza’s narcissism we see on film.
Alan A. Stone
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