Writing the Trump Years Into History
The New Yorker 12 May 2026

Writing the Trump Years Into History

Robert Penn Warren’s 1946 novel is the story of the rise and fall of a Southern populist, the Louisiana governor Willie Stark—a fictional Huey Long (even if Warren downplayed the …

Inside Gold Rush 2.0
The New Yorker 11 May 2026

Inside Gold Rush 2.0

Evidence of Donald Trump’s self-declared “golden age of America” has been confined mainly to the Oval Office, which, in his second term, has been filled with a blinding assortment…

Gary Snyder on How to Unbreak the World
The Marginalian 8 May 2026

Gary Snyder on How to Unbreak the World

“The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” Muriel Rukeyser wrote in her poem “The Speed of Darkness” not long after James Baldwin told an audience of writers that “we made the …