The B-Sides of the Golden Record, Track Eleven: “How Will You Begin?”
The B-Sides of the “Golden Record,” Track Eleven: “How Will You Begin?”

Alice Driver’s Life and Death of the American Worker, an intimate look at a processing plant in Arkansas, exposes the inhumanity of a workplace and how workers fought back.
The Australian writer’s 1984 novel, The Island, is a hypnotic work of fiction about the border between life and art.
American writers have long made European misadventures the stuff of fiction, but what does it mean to be an expatriate today? Andrew Lipstein’s Something Rotten is one answer.
The second season of his HBO series The Rehearsal—which tackles the crisis facing the aviation industry—is better understood as an extreme form of reality TV.
Shortly before his death, The Nation spoke with the Kenyan writer about his most recent essay collection Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas.
The composer is an undeniable part of the classical music canon. Does that change the meaning of his radical early work?