For Ben Lerner, poems are the perfect medium for failure. So how can they negotiate with the politics of real life?

What’s The Matter With Poetry?

For Ben Lerner, poems are the perfect medium for failure. So how can they negotiate with the politics of real life?

By Ken Chen

Requiem for a Border Wall

Shotgun shells, used water bottles, and 670 miles of fencing provide the raw material for an American photographer and Mexican composer.

By Mikaela Lefrak

Stop Giving Digital Assistants Female Voices

Siri, Alexa, and now Viv all sound like women. That's a problem in real life.

By Jessica Nordell

Becoming American in the Age of Trump

A group of Arab immigrants in Brooklyn has a new motivation for passing the U.S. citizenship test: fear of mass deportation.

By Sarah Aziza

You Can’t Polish a Trump

His big anti-Clinton speech was scripted, on-message—and dull.

By Jeet Heer

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