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2.18.18 Issue

Highlights

  2. Feature

    Why ‘Black Panther’ Is a Defining Moment for Black America

    Ryan Coogler’s film is a vivid re-imagination of something black Americans have cherished for centuries — Africa as a dream of our wholeness, greatness and self-realization.

     By Carvell Wallace

    CreditPhoto Illustration by Najeebah Al-Ghadban
  4. First Words

    When ‘Reform’ Means a Process of Elimination

    Nothing sounds quite so sensible or healthy as ‘reform’ — whether its ultimate goal is to improve society or, these days, to stop trying.

     By Beverly Gage

    CreditPhoto illustration by Derek Brahney

  1. Letter of Recommendation: Spoilers

    Knowing what’s going to happen can amplify the pleasure of the moviegoing experience.

     By Jenna Wortham

    Knowing what’s going to happen can amplify the pleasure of the moviegoing experience.
    CreditIllustration by Jules Julien
    Letter of Recommendation

  2. Evoking What Can’t Be Seen

    Lorna Simpson’s work with photographs and other media is a masterclass in layering

     By Teju Cole

    ‘‘Montage,’’ 2018.
    CreditLorna Simpson. From Hauser & Wirth.
    On Photography

  3. Her Various Symptoms Seemed Unrelated. Then One Doctor Put It All Together.

    Chills, sweats, hives, achey bones — the older woman was sick for years before someone figured out the unusual disease that ailed her.

     By Lisa Sanders, M.D.

    CreditIllustration by Andreas Samuelsson
    Diagnosis

  4. A Chef’s Dream to Restore an Ancient West African Grain

    For the Senegalese-American chef Pierre Thiam, a meal with fonio tastes of both past and future.

     By Tejal Rao

    Mafe (Senegalese groundnut stew) with lamb shoulder and fonio.
    CreditGentl and Hyers for The New York Times.
    Eat

  5. April Ryan Asks Political Questions No One Else Will

    The White House correspondent on freedom of the press, the value of the White House press briefing and becoming a reaction meme.

     Interview by Audie Cornish

    April Ryan
    CreditAriel Zambelich for The New York Times
    Talk

  1. New Sentences: From ‘After Kathy Acker,’ by Chris Kraus

    What are we leaving out when we encourage one another to speak rationally, objectively and impersonally?

     By Sam Anderson

    Credit
    New Sentences

  2. Poem: FOR IAN SULLIVAN UPON JOINING THE EASTSIDE WHITE PRIDE

    Selected by Terrance Hayes.

     By Matthew Dickman

    Credit
    Poem

  3. Do I Have to Spring for My Kid to Go to an Elite College?

    The magazine’s Ethicist column on a parent’s duty to weigh the benefit of college against the cost and what is owed to a fixer in a war-torn country.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

  4. How to Forgive

    Make sure forgiveness is called for. Get the perpetrator to admit responsibility.

     By Malia Wollan

    CreditIllustration by Radio
    Tip

  5. Judge John Hodgman on the Epistemological Terror of James Bond Films

    In what sense can we be certain that Sean Connery ever even existed?

     By Judge John Hodgman

    CreditIllustration by Kyle Hilton
    Judge John Hodgman

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