Grayson Scott

Oct 23, 2024 | thenation.com | Grayson Scott

Books & the Arts / October 23, 2024Everything Visible and Invisible About the War on TerrorA conversation with Richard Beck about his new book, Homeland, and the profound consequences of America’s wars abroad on our polarized politics and our fractured way of life. Ad PolicyUS Army Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, boards a C-17 cargo plane at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, 2021.

Oct 21, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Grayson Scott

Office Politics by Wilfrid Sheed. McNally Editions, 352 pages. 2024. “He certainly knows how to hold a magazine, thought George. It was like watching a first-rate actor demonstrating magazine-holding.” The man is Gilbert Twining, editor of The Outsider, a distinguished little magazine.

Oct 8, 2024 | thebaffler.com | K. Watanabe |Ratik Asokan |Grayson Scott

The Baffler and BAM are pleased to present a week-long film series that responds to our fall issue, “Facing the Future,” which examines the use and abuse of the “emerging majority” in political life around the globe.

Jul 8, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Grayson Scott

Groove, Bang, and Jive Around by Steven Cannon. Blank Forms, 242 pages. 2024 (1969). The first thing we learn about Annette, the protagonist of Steve Cannon’s Groove, Bang and Jive Around, is that she is fourteen. The second is that “she didn’t care.” Groove is a book about a child who has an unbelievable amount of sex, and unbelievable kinds of sex.

Jul 3, 2023 | thebaffler.com | Grayson Scott

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey through the Deep State by Kerry Howley. Knopf, 256 pages. 2023. On November 3, 2002, an NSA linguist on at the military base Camp Doha in Kuwait was eavesdropping on a phone call in Yemen. The call was from a number associated with Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, a Yemeni citizen alleged to be behind the USS Cole attack two years earlier.