Elizabeth Hardwick’s Life of the Mind Elizabeth Hardwick’s Life of the Mind
The first biography of the critic and novelist examines the personal costs of devoting oneself to intellectual pursuit.
Dec 8, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Sarah Wang
What We Get Wrong About Adoption What We Get Wrong About Adoption
Activists and political leaders promote adoption as a social good, looking past the complex experiences of adoptees and the parents who relinquish them.
Dec 7, 2021 / Gretchen Sisson and Jessica M. Harrison
New Corona Variants = More Deaths New Corona Variants = More Deaths
Protest against mandates = more variants.
Dec 7, 2021 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards
The Global Far Right Is Alive and Kicking The Global Far Right Is Alive and Kicking
And it hasn’t had this kind of opportunity for global expansion since fascism’s heyday in the 1930s.
Dec 7, 2021 / John Feffer
The Export Boom That Could Transform Texas—and the World The Export Boom That Could Transform Texas—and the World
The United States’ oil and gas export boom has been a decade in the making. All along the Texas coast, communities are fighting back against the industry’s expansion.
Dec 7, 2021 / Amal Ahmed
When Did Postmodernism End? When Did Postmodernism End?
A new book by Stuart Jeffries claims we never left behind this heady, late-20th-century period of cultural and political expression.
Dec 7, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Marzoni
Jessica Cisneros Is the Future of the Democratic Party Jessica Cisneros Is the Future of the Democratic Party
A conversation with the 28-year-old human rights attorney, who will be facing one of the last anti-abortion, pro-gun Democrats left in Congress.
Dec 7, 2021 / Aída Chávez
My Parents Collect Cans for a Living My Parents Collect Cans for a Living
When people ask about my family now, I tell them not with embarrassment or shame but with pride.
Dec 7, 2021 / StudentNation / Jessica Yauri
When the United Fruit Company Tried to Buy Guatemala When the United Fruit Company Tried to Buy Guatemala
How a sitting, elected national government found itself in the position of having to buy its own country.
Dec 7, 2021 / Olúfémi O. Táíwò
Omas Gegen Rechts—Grannies Against the Right! Omas Gegen Rechts—Grannies Against the Right!
German feminists prove that “Gray power!” can be more than just a slogan—and that activists come in all ages.
Dec 6, 2021 / Linda Mannheim