Kiese Laymon's Novel Explores the Messy Complexity of Race in America

Managing Editor Simon Waxman interviews Jina Moore about how she reports and writes about poverty.

Fareed Zakaria and the plagiarism scandal.

Srđan Dragojević’s film about the aspirations of gay Serbs may finally be puncturing a culture of homophobia.

What is the ethical power of literature?

A few days later Carlson sent us the guest list: Jamie Weinstein, Matt Labash, Audrey Lowe, Buckley Carlson, and Andrew Breitbart. “Entertaining, civil people all of them, guaranteed,” he vouched.

Why discussion boards and online marketplaces can make it easier for scientists to pool their data and find far-flung collaborators.

A Syrian activist continues the fight from Lebanon.

Amazon isn’t just bad for cities; it’s also bad for books.

Robin D.G. Kelley’s Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original restores the pianist and composer to the history he lived through.

The main argument of Cognitive Surplus rests on a striking analogy. 

How programs like Google Docs rob users of their freedom.

It is now eight days since an earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince.

Stranger than Fiction is an unexpectedly delightful film that brings whimsy and grown-up humor back to the movies.

Can the netroots reshape American democracy?

A close look at post-Soviet commercial advertising reveals that market norms never really took hold—even among capitalists.

 TV subverts even the possibility of morality, of human responsibility.