The Truest Testament: On the Life and Art of Yuri Felsen
Bryan Karetnyk tells the tragic tale of Yuri Felsen, a Russian émigré author whose English-language debut is long overdue.
All Essays
Justice Among the Jell-O Recipes: The Feminist History of Food Journalism
Suzanne Cope rescues the true history of food journalism from erasure.
A Different Backstory for Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon”
Rebecca Panovka explores the background of Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo.’”
Writer’s Brains: The Lasting Worth of Alfred Hayes
Alex Harvey surveys the career of Alfred Hayes, a 20th-century American poet, novelist, and screenwriter.
Ideas to Live by: A Conversation with Mari Ruti
Tajja Isen and Philip Sayers sit down to talk with Mari Ruti about her new book, “Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings.”
Boarding School Magic
Why is young adult fiction so enamored of boarding school life?
Bruno Latour Tracks Down Gaia
Bruno Latour elaborates upon Gaia, a political biological theory concerning the Earth by James Lovelock.
Trump and the Magic Yams
What linguistic anthropology tells us about the appeal of Trump's lies.
A Talk About Democracy
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier's speech, delivered at the Getty Center, about the legacy of Thomas Mann and the state of democracy today.
Photo Synthesis: Authoring Our Lives in the Age of Instagram
The psychology that pushes us to make pictures, a psychology that Susan Sontag laid bare in 1977, seems to have reached new levels of pathology in 2018.
Unpacking Murad Osmann’s #FollowMeTo Instagram Travel Series
As Instagram becomes more and more prominent as a form of aspirational self-advertising, we must take seriously its images as cultural objects.
The Wee Gunmen of Glasgow: On Crime as Industry in Malcolm Mackay’s Tartan Noir
On crime as industry in the works of Malcolm Mackay.
Careers of Evil: On the Migration of a Three-Word Phrase from Lautréamont to J. K. Rowling, with Stops at Patti Smith and the Blue Öyster Cult
Howard Rodman on the origins of the phrase “career of evil,” with stops at Patti Smith and the Blue Öyster Cult.
Prisoners of a Vision: Dissidents in Sisi’s Egypt
The ongoing struggle against a US-backed dictatorship.
“Color of Reality”: Jon Boogz, Lil Buck, and Black Lives in Livid Color
"Color of Reality" is a eulogy for all black men who dare step into three-dimensionality.
“A Lovely Grave for Learning”: Exhuming the Dead of Guatemala’s Genocide
A journey into the mass graves of Guatemala.
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