• Features

    Film and TV

    Does Bong Joon-Ho’s Historic Oscar Win Signal Real Change for the Academy Awards?

    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 10, 2020
    Rereadings

    The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

    By Zan Romanoff  February 10, 2020
    On Death

    There is No Specific Noun for a Parent Who Has Lost a Child

    By Denise Riley  February 10, 2020
    Desire

    The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

    By Jenn Shapland  February 10, 2020
    Poetry

    We Didn’t Always Pair Poets to Presidents: How Robert Frost Ended Up at JFK’s Inauguration

    By John Burnside  February 10, 2020
    Anthropology

    On the Storylines That Kept Early Humans Alive

    By Gaia Vince  February 10, 2020
    Religion

    Nuns Can Party, Too: On Defying Expectations of Piety

    By Alena Dillon  February 10, 2020
    Emergence Magazine Podcast

    Richard Powers Talks Kinship, Community, and Consciousness

    By Emergence Magazine  February 10, 2020
    The Cold War

    Days Five and Six at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: Secret Meetings and the Founding of the UN

    By Diana Preston  February 10, 2020
    First Draft

    Jill Ciment on What’s Truly Interesting About Sex

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 10, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener, Read by Suehyla El-Attar

    By Behind the Mic   February 10, 2020
    Criticism

    Brilliance and Blind Spots:
    Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 7, 2020
    First Nations Writers

    Richard Wagamese on Anti-Native Racism and Deciding to Fight Back

    By Richard Wagamese  February 7, 2020
    Journalism

    The Investigation Truman Capote Started, But Never Finished, on Russian Socialites

    By Sophia Leonard  February 7, 2020
    Queer Lit

    Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

    By Catie Disabato  February 7, 2020
    American Nazis

    How Nazism’s Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

    By Donna Rifkind  February 7, 2020
    Ethical Eating

    Some Very Doable Steps Toward a Plant-Based Kitchen

    By Nil Zacharias and Gene Stone  February 7, 2020
    Keen On

    Albert Wenger on a World After Capital

    By Keen On  February 7, 2020
    The Cold War

    Day Four at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: The Polish Problem

    By Diana Preston  February 7, 2020
    Hollywood

    The 2020 Oscar Nominations Prove That Hollywood Still Hasn’t Seen Through the Smoke

    By Naomi McDougall Jones  February 7, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Susan Isaacs on Why She Chose to Write Mysteries

    By The Literary Life  February 7, 2020
    Behind the Mic

    Behind the Mic: On Queen of Bones by Teresa Dovalpage, Read by Cynthia Farrell

    By Behind the Mic   February 7, 2020
    Impeachment

    Even the Founding Fathers Couldn’t Envision a President Like Trump

    By Liesl Schillinger  February 6, 2020
    5 Questions

    Lidia Yuknavitch on Frankenstein, Incarceration, and Overcoming Creative Blocks

    By Literary Hub  February 6, 2020
    The Cold War

    Day Three at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: ‘The Whole Palace Was Bugged!’

    By Diana Preston  February 6, 2020
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