BAFFLER

YESTERDAY

New York Groove

Where are you going? Where is your departed? Don’t you care about your father?

APRIL 17. 2025

A Place of Wounds

In “Henry James Comes Home, ” Peter Brooks investigates James’s complex accord with his homeland and its people.

APRIL 16. 2025

Deterrence Theory

The United States is up to its ears in human rights violations in a place Americans know nothing about.

APRIL 15. 2025

De-Extinction Rebellion

Scientists want to control extinction. It will have consequences we can’t even begin to conceive of.

APRIL 14. 2025

Fashionable Nonsense

Alison Wood Brooks’s “Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves” is prototypical pop science. Bullshit, in other words.

APRIL 11. 2025

Kafka in Kurdish

“Lovers of Franz K. ,” the latest novel by Burhan Sönmez, is the first to be written in his native Kurdish.

APRIL 10. 2025

Probably Oblivion

The Trump administration’s approach to nuclear spending is fully unburdened by any tired midcentury notion of its peoples’ welfare.

APRIL 8. 2025

Burn Down the House

Right-wing extremists have found a home in MAGA and a source of cash in oligarchs hell-bent on destroying the American system of government.

APRIL 4. 2025

The Orchestra Minion

I have not applied for the post of orchestra minion in order to revive the old feud between strings and woodwind.

APRIL 3. 2025

Invisible Crisis

In his new book “There Is No Place for Us, ” Brian Goldstone highlights the invisible crisis of working homelessness.

APRIL 2. 2025

The Way of All Flesh

Despite thousands of years of social conditioning, basic evolutionary reality cuts us to the quick.

MARCH 31. 2025

Schumer’s Warning

What Chuck Schumer has to say about antisemitism is predictable and redundant.

MARCH 28. 2025

The Limits of Rights

Kenneth Roth’s memoir inadvertently reveals the limits of human rights discourse.

MARCH 27. 2025

Where the Vile Things Are

Ukraine’s largest nature reserve has been taken over by Russia—and become the target of plundering grifters, opportunists, and other arch predators.