Rumaan Alam’s Haves and Have-Nots Rumaan Alam’s Haves and Have-Nots
With his latest novel, Entitlement, he asks: Can wealth inequality make you lose your mind?
Mar 5, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Jess Bergman
How Do We Combat the Racist History of Public Education? How Do We Combat the Racist History of Public Education?
A conversation with Eve L. Ewing about the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy and her book Original Sins.
Mar 4, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Naomi Elias
Art Spiegelman and the Inescapable Shadow of Fascism Art Spiegelman and the Inescapable Shadow of Fascism
The creator of Maus has learned that the past is always present.
Mar 3, 2025 / Jeet Heer
February Storms in a Country That Still Works—for Now February Storms in a Country That Still Works—for Now
The reliable knot that pulls together the threads of basic human life in America is beginning to unravel, and there suddenly arises the possibility that the center will not hold.
Feb 26, 2025 / Susan Brind Morrow
Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism
Even those of us who enjoy Ralph Waldo Emerson will apologize for his poetry. His essays—most of which began as lectures—are erudite but predominantly concerned with honesty and co…
Feb 26, 2025 / Books & the Arts / David B. Hobbs
Djuna Barnes’s Playthings Djuna Barnes’s Playthings
Her short fiction provides an odd glimpse at a writer whose interests move beyond the human and into something more inchoate.
Feb 25, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Missouri Williams
History Repeats Itself History Repeats Itself
And democracy fades.
Feb 24, 2025 / OppArt / Jesse Duquette
Can We Still Recover the Right to Be Left Alone? Can We Still Recover the Right to Be Left Alone?
The political theorist Lowry Pressly thinks we’ve abandoned a more creative and humanist definition of the concept.
Feb 24, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Cora Currier
