Editorial Cartoons
Editorial Cartoons
Saying Goodbye to Sam
Oct 28, 2019 Samuel Hynes was a professor, a decorated Marine and an important writer on war and its horrors. But to me, most of all, he was a friend.
A Revolutionary Writer for Our Darkest Days
Aug 30, 2019 Novelist Ali Smith manages to render humanity's astonishing resilience in the face of “volcanic political canyon-ing across the world.”
Harold Bloom’s Tragic Confession
Jul 27, 2019 The provocative literary critic's recent book reveals that he yearns for more time to reconcile that he's merely "a reader and a teacher, and not a creator."
Pod Save Us From These Liberal Wonks
Feb 8, 2019 Hosted by four of Barack Obama’s former staffers, “Pod Save America” embodies the utter cluelessness of our political establishment.
Joe Biden Should Spare Us All the Trouble
Jan 11, 2019 The former vice president is considering a run for president in 2020, but progressives should be leery of his candidacy.
Sheryl Sandberg Needs to Log Off
Dec 4, 2018 A damning new investigation finds the Facebook COO has more in common with right-wing cranks like Laura Loomer than we might like to think.
Top-Flight Cast Takes On American Classic ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’
Jun 15, 2018 The Beverly Hills production features Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville under the direction of five-time Olivier Award winner Richard Eyre.
‘Lear,’ Not ‘1984,’ Defines the Trump Era
Jun 10, 2017 The best literary precedent for what we're enduring now is not the absolute order of Big Brother but the irrational eruptions of King Lear.
Much Ado About Very Little
Dec 30, 2016 What does it take to put on a Shakespeare play in a Midwestern regional theater? A new book seeks to answer this question, but far more interesting questions are left unasked.
Hag-Seed
Oct 22, 2016 Margaret Atwood's modern-day take on Shakespeare's "The Tempest" follows a Canadian theater director, driven mad over his daughter's death, who is fired and exiled from the world of theater. Using only his artistic genius and a crew of local prisoners, he devises a brilliant new production of "The Tempest."
