Are Black Women Ready for Hillary?

In 2008, South Carolina was the epicenter of the Clinton campaign’s implosion. This year, she’s counting on black women to rally to her side.

Joan Walsh

The Strange, True Story of the Man Whose Maid Was Worth Millions

Manju Das thought her future was secured when she went to work as the housekeeper for a wealthy corporate executive. Little did she realize how she was being used.

Nilita Vachani

Happiness and the Hidden Wealth of Nations

Two recent books show how challenging the fight against pernicious inequality remains.

Timothy Shenk

Real, Realist, Realistic, and False

Linda Rosenkrantz’s 1968 quasi-novel Talk reminds us that wry self-awareness and anxious fragility are hardly millennial inventions.

Becca Rothfeld

Conductor of the Anonymous

In her oral histories, Svetlana Alexievich orchestrates the voices of Russians trying to reconcile the irreconciliable.

Sophie Benech

Is Serious Landscape Painting Still Possible?

Maureen Gallace’s fresh and enigmatic work indicates that it is.

Barry Schwabsky

Through the Slaughter

Peter Cole