What Grows? What Grows?
Prelude to after the fire. (Mural, outside PS1 in Queens, NY)
Jun 28, 2023 / OppArt / Layqa Nuna Yawar, Tatyana Fazlaizadeh, and Nani Chacon
Living Communally Can Make Us Less Lonely Living Communally Can Make Us Less Lonely
We’ve been convinced that single-family houses on our own plots of land or isolated flats in towers signal success. Yet, for many of us, these habitats prove far from ideal.
Jun 28, 2023 / Kristen R. Ghodsee
The Long and Sometimes Lost History of Trans The Long and Sometimes Lost History of Trans
To borrow a phrase from the photographer and activist Samra Habib, “We have always been here”—or, at least, people somewhat like us have always been here.
Jun 28, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie Burt
Julian Assange and Arnon Milchan: The Lopsided Scales of American Justice Julian Assange and Arnon Milchan: The Lopsided Scales of American Justice
One has boasted of espionage. The other revealed massive government wrongdoing. So why is the whistleblower in jail?
Jun 27, 2023 / James Bamford
What My Parents Taught Me About Bodily Autonomy What My Parents Taught Me About Bodily Autonomy
I learned from an early age that honoring an individual’s wishes for their body is a sacred act.
Jun 27, 2023 / Feature / Angela Garbes
When FDR Took On the Supreme Court When FDR Took On the Supreme Court
The standard narrative of Roosevelt's court-packing efforts casts them as a failure. But what if they were a success?
Jun 27, 2023 / Books & the Arts / John Fabian Witt
How the Supreme Court Got This Powerful How the Supreme Court Got This Powerful
It goes all the way back to Marbury v. Madison.
Jun 27, 2023 / Stan Mack
Without Apology: Abortion in Literature Without Apology: Abortion in Literature
Some of the most powerful, important abortion narratives show working-class women terminating their pregnancies without regret or anguish.
Jun 26, 2023 / Feature / Edna Bonhomme
Don DeLillo’s Cold Wars Don DeLillo’s Cold Wars
His 1980s novels take the story of America’s postwar years, usually seen as a triumphal rise to perpetual dominance, and converts it into one about a long and chaotic decline.
Jun 26, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Siddhartha Deb
“The Nation” Leads the Relaunch of “Bookforum” “The Nation” Leads the Relaunch of “Bookforum”
Resurrecting a leading voice of US literary criticism, the quarterly will remain editorially independent, with the first new issue out August 2023.
Jun 22, 2023 / Press Room