Readings

Understanding physics is like catching up with a soap opera: very complicated. Thankfully, there are trailers to keep us up to date.

Chinua Achebe, Nelson Mandela said, "brought Africa to the rest of the world." Poet Jackie Kay called him "the grandfather of African fiction." In commemoration of Achebe, who has died at the age of 82, we publish his essay "Africa is People," from his 2010 collection, The Education of a British-Protected Child.

A look at the films of Harmony Korine, from the dirty brown bathwater of Gummo to the pulsing, neon Florida of his new film, Spring Breakers.

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. When counting up the horrible costs, is it possible to say anything was learned from the debacle?

Some thoughts on the first paragraph of Renata Adler’s just reissued 1976 novel Speedboat.