November 7, 2024 Election Issue

Patricia J. Williams

Expanding the Vocabulary

With great discipline and sanity, Kamala Harris has been navigating a minefield of Trumpian insults and attempts to debase her.

Laurence H. Tribe

Where Freedom Ends

Law can oppress as easily as it can liberate, and it is the everyday life we lead at our kitchen tables and in our bedrooms that is most dangerously threatened by a return of Trump to power.

Christine Smallwood

Across thousands of pages, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Morning Star series presents a relentless excess of its characters’ inner lives; at its best, it poses troubling questions about the scope of human knowledge.

The Morning Star

by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken

The Wolves of Eternity

by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken

The Third Realm

by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aiken

Shane McCrae

Sonnet in Which Most of the Rhymes Fail

a poem

Anne Enright

Words Not Said

On the undecided voter

Matthew Desmond

How to Solve the Housing Crisis

What the next president can do

Pankaj Mishra

The Flailing Superpower

The spectacle of America on the global stage

Jacqueline Rose

Antigone’s Law

Who can make the world a better place?

Mark Lilla

Another Change Election

On the need to preserve our institutions

Elaine Blair

Stop Infantilizing Moderates!

Democrats need a stronger message for the uncommitted voter.

Susan Faludi

Laugh-In

On the joyful Kamala Harris and the mirthless Donald Trump

Nathaniel Rich

Silent Spring

Why aren’t the candidates talking about climate change?

Marilynne Robinson

‘The Joke Turns Fearful Earnest’

On taking democracy seriously

Jonathan Lethem

The Forty-Fourth Year of the Reagan Administration

What would it sound like if the Democratic elite said the quiet part out loud?

Christine Henneberg

Calculated Risks

Since the overturning of Roe, it has once again become a subversive act to provide medical care for women as though their lives are as valuable as men’s.

We Choose To: A Memoir of Providing Abortion Care Before, During, and After Roe

by Curtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd

Abortion in the Age of Unreason: A Doctor’s Account of Caring for Women Before and After Roe v. Wade

by Warren M. Hern

Natalie Shapero

Semi-Arid

a poem

Jed Perl

Ralph Ellison’s Alchemical Camera

The novelist’s photographs reveal an aestheticizing impulse that is difficult to reconcile with the relentless seriousness of his observations and critiques of American society.

Ralph Ellison: Photographer

edited by Michal Raz-Russo and John F. Callahan

Adam Gaffney,
David U. Himmelstein,
Steffie Woolhandler

The Only Way to Fix US Health Care

The evidence confirms what our patients regard as common sense: copays and deductibles cause people to skip needed care and hence suffer poorer health, and even mortal consequences.

We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care

by Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein

Nicole Rudick

‘A Woman Who Wins’

In her series of historical novels about the life of Saint Hilda of Whitby, Nicola Griffith explores how a woman of modest means became one of the most influential people in seventh-century Britain.

Hild

by Nicola Griffith

Menewood

by Nicola Griffith

Steven Simon,
Jonathan Stevenson

The Peril of Civil Breakdown

The US political situation radiates instability. How likely is extremist violence in the aftermath of the election?

Sue Halpern

The Coming Tech Autocracy

A functional government, committed to safeguarding its citizens, might be keen to create a regulatory agency for AI or pass comprehensive legislation, but we in the United States do not have such a government.

AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own

by Verity Harding

Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us

by Gary Marcus

The Mind’s Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI

by Daniela Rus and Gregory Mone

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

by Madhumita Murgia

Fintan O’Toole

Playing for Time

With the boisterous energy of direct speech, the novelist Ferdia Lennon takes on both the playfulness and the harsh realism of Euripides.

Glorious Exploits

by Ferdia Lennon

Mark Danner

Getting Out the Fear Vote

As Trump improvises at his rallies, his grim imaginings of a mongrelized, crime-ridden country are transformed into unfalsifiable myths.

Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass

by Ramin Setoodeh

Christopher R. Browning

Hitler’s Enablers

The complicity of conservative nationalists in the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933 offers disturbing parallels to the current American political situation.

Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power

by Timothy W. Ryback

Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

by Peter Fritzsche

The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic

by Benjamin Carter Hett