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Unconventional, Part 8: The Court Objects to Allen Ginsberg
Throughout the summer, Nathan Gelgud, a correspondent for the Daily, has been posting a weekly comic about the writers, artists, and demonstrators who attended the contested 1968 Democratic National...
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Amiri Baraka Is in Contempt
Nathan Gelgud has illustrated for The Paris Review, Nike, Random House, NYRB Classics, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Ford Foundation, and The Believer. He is one of the Daily’s correspondents.
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Before the Blast
How expats fashion online identities while living in a war zone. A shop owner jokingly points a toy gun at the author in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley. All photos by Deni Ellis Béchard. All wars have...
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Let No One Sleep
“Nessun dorma,” Donald Trump, and the best and worst of fans. The hero of Turandot lurks behind the opera’s icy princess. Ever since Jacopo Peri wrote Euridice (1600, the earliest extant European...
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Up and Down the Meadows
Las Vegas before and during “Clinton-Trump III.” Hard Rock Cafe, Las Vegas. Photo: Thomas Hawk. Debate Wednesday in Las Vegas—or, as the front-page headline of the Las Vegas Review-Journal called it,...
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The Dreams
Henri-Edmond Cross, Landscape with Stars, ca. 1905–1908, watercolor over graphite on white wove paper, 9 5/8″ x 12 5/8″. Karen Fish’s poem “The Dreams” appeared in our Winter 1989 issue. Night arrives...
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Zonies, Part 2: Raul
Mike Powell’s column is about living in Arizona. The wall along the Arizona-Mexico border. Photo: Cecilia Balli/PRI. My friend Raul is thirty-six and until recently played in a band called the...
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Mürmurings
Uluç Ülgen invites total strangers to his home for intimate one-on-one conversations. Uluç Ülgen. All photos via www.mürmer.com. With the possible exception of certain work-from-home professionals...
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Otto the Strange
Otto Peltzer—gay, androgynous, intellectual, and modern—represented a new model of male perfection in Weimar Germany. Otto Peltzer training at Georgetown University, while on a visit to the United...
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Permanent Resident
The lingering anxieties of growing up undocumented. Alexia Arthurs. Photo by Kaylia Duncan. I’m trying to remember when I first knew I was undocumented. We all were—my mother, my brother and sister,...
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