Ghosts on the Page: Alice Cary’s “Hagar: A Story of To-Day” and Other Lost Books
Reckoning with the ghosts of neglected women authors....
The Politics of American Space: Red, Blue, Purple
On the psychodynamics of space and the red versus blue state divide....
Subverting Mao: The Roots of Minjian Activism in China
Perry Link evaluates a multi-decade protest tactic for democratic rights in China: minjian activism....
No Beauty in Cell Bars: Talking with Spoon Jackson
Olivia Durif talks with poet Spoon Jackson about COVID-19 and the future of the prison-industrial complex....
The One With(out) the Gender Binary: Rewatching “Friends” and “Coupling”
Sam Moore watches reruns of Friends and Couplings only to find two shows defined by their own rigid definitions of gender and sexuality....
At Home in the Unseen World
Psychiatrist and historian George Makari remembers his father, Jack Makari, a pioneer of cancer immunology and microbiology....
Antifa Dust
Michael Scott Moore on the history and future of Antifa....
Dilettantes and Connoisseurs: The Public Intellectual in the United States
On the evolution of the figure of the public intellectual in the internet age....
The Millennial Blues of “Palm Springs”
Beatrice Loayza writes time-loop rom-com “Palm Springs” as millennial manifesto....
4 January 1960
Raymond Queneau on the death of Albert Camus....
Albert Camus, Patron Saint of the Sticks
Camus’s final, unfinished novel evokes a lost Algerian homeland....
A Poet of Mythologies: Homero Aridjis at 80
A celebration of the great Mexican poet, novelist, and environmental activist....
