Mama I Am Sorry Mama I Am Sorry
For the stillbirth and the live ones. For my books, degrees, and all the other1 ways I have betrayed you. For unlinking our arms a dozen times the year before2 your surgery, unconv…
Nov 1, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Cindy Juyoung Ok
First Foray Into Apophatic Theology First Foray Into Apophatic Theology
and then God is not like the sound the kindling makes as it meets the matchhead, not like the buoy in the bay invisible at night, not like the gravity calling to the pear on the bo…
Nov 1, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Matthew Olzammn
Elon Musk’s Big Twitter Adventure Will End in Disaster Elon Musk’s Big Twitter Adventure Will End in Disaster
The good news is that the plutocrat’s move to turn a social media platform into a forum for the far right probably won't work.
Oct 31, 2022 / Jeet Heer
Meredith Tax, 1942–2022 Meredith Tax, 1942–2022
The tireless organizer, feminist pioneer, and relentless coalition builder never let up.
Oct 31, 2022 / Alix Kates Shulman
Javier Zamora and the Canon of Undocumented Literature Javier Zamora and the Canon of Undocumented Literature
The poet’s memoir joins a growing body of work chronicling the personal and political odysseys undocumented Americans face.
Oct 31, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Jesús A. Rodríguez
The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up
How JFK and Robert Kennedy hid the quid pro quo that saved the world from nuclear war.
Oct 28, 2022 / Peter Kornbluh
Good News Alert: Democrats Might Actually Flip the Michigan Legislature Good News Alert: Democrats Might Actually Flip the Michigan Legislature
What’s their secret sauce? Support for public education.
Oct 28, 2022 / Jennifer C. Berkshire
Ye of Toxic Faith: Behind the Kanye Downfall Ye of Toxic Faith: Behind the Kanye Downfall
How the hip-hop legend succumbed to the right-wing grifting machine
Oct 28, 2022 / Ben Schwartz
How Useful Is Theory In Moments of Crisis? How Useful Is Theory In Moments of Crisis?
A conversation with sociologist Dylan Riley about the state of left politics, defending social theory as a political tool, and his new book Microverses.
Oct 28, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Ishan Desai-Geller
The Shadows of Stanley Cavell The Shadows of Stanley Cavell
A posthumous collection of essays, Here and Now: Sites of Philosophy, reveals both what was insightful and what was profoundly lacking in the project of ordinary language philosoph...
Oct 27, 2022 / Books & the Arts / John-Baptiste Oduor