The Story Behind Your Salad: Farmworkers, Covid-19, and a Dangerous Commute

Each day, Mexican farmworkers endure a grueling journey to get to their jobs in US lettuce fields. This year, that journey turned potentially deadly.

Esther Honig

A Prophet at the Barbecue: Larry McMurtry, 1936–2021

Three views of a Texas giant.

Benjamin Moser

The Father of Environmental Justice Isn’t Done Yet

Robert Bullard has been fighting a sometimes lonely battle since the 1970s. For his many heirs, the struggle has just begun.

Amal Ahmed

Yi Sang’s Global Poetry

Through his synthetic and surrealist style, the Korean poet helped chart an alternate path of internationalism in an age of empire.

E. Tammy Kim

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Quietly Bracing New Novel

How writing in Italian gave Lahiri a new sense of creative freedom.

Jennifer Wilson

The Rise of Adjunct Lit

How a bleak future in and out of the academy has produced a new kind of campus novel.

Maggie Doherty

The Entwined History of Freedom and Racism

In White Freedom, historian Tyler Stovall examines how liberty for some has always entailed a lack of liberty for many others.  

Olúfémi O. Táíwò

Graham Greene’s God

As a new biography shows, the British novelist was always haunted by, and uncertain about, his own faith.

John Banville

The Broken Bell

Daisy Fried

Heaven

Hua Xi

Can Capitalism Be Fixed?

In his new book, Branko Milanovic charts what has gone wrong with contemporary capitalism while also insisting we must reconcile ourselves to its contradictions.

Alyssa Battistoni

Richard Wright’s Lost Novel

In The Man Who Lived Underground, Wright offers a gothic tale of police violence and urban surrealism.

Elias Rodriques