We Can’t Stem the Tide of Language Death
Laura McPherson on the importance of documenting endangered languages before they vanish....
How Women Talk: Heather Wood Rudulph Interviews Deborah Tannen
Heather Wood Rudulph talks to professor Deborah Tannen about her latest, "You’re the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women’s Friendships."...
Between Tragedy and Opportunity: Lynne B. Sagalyn’s “Power at Ground Zero”
Stephen Petrus surveys “Power at Ground Zero” by Lynne B. Sagalyn....
The Art of Embarrassment and the Embarrassment of Art
Jamie Carragher contemplates the relationship between embarrassment and art....
Down with the English Language!
Colin Marshall looks at books by Minae Mizumura and Aamir R. Mufti that lament the rise of global English....
Culture Is Armor: On Adam Gopnik and the Necessity of the Cultural Intellectual
On Adam Gopnik as a public intellectual....
Regarding the Pain of Trump
What Susan Sontag might say about Trump’s response to the Syrian Civil War....
“The End Is Where We Start From”: On Evan Kindley’s “Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture”
Bradley Babendir reviews Evan Kindley’s “Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture.”...
On “Coming of Age”: Margaret Mead’s Correspondence and the Biographical Problem
Deborah Blum’s new biography of anthropologist Margaret Mead poses questions about the ethical underpinnings of early fieldwork and the genre of biography....
McDonald’s as America: A Conversation with Chris Arnade
Photographer Chris Arnade discusses his use of McDonald’s as a point of entry into the communities he documents....
The Last Bastion of Free America?: Meagan Day’s “Maximum Sunlight”
Olivia Durif reviews Meaghan Day’s book about Tonopah, Nevada....
A New New White Man: Toni Morrison’s “Playing in the Dark” Turns 25
Joseph Darda on the enduring importance of Toni Morrison’s “Playing in the Dark” as the pathbreaking collection turns 25....
