“We’ve Been Hiding Our Buttocks For Too Long.” Josephine Baker Arrives in Paris, 1925

“We’ve Been Hiding Our Buttocks For Too Long.” Josephine Baker Arrives in Paris, 1925

The Iconic French-American Performer Recounts Her First Days in the City of Lights

By Josephine Baker | February 7, 2025

“This Will Be Fun.” On the Life and Times of a Comics Master, Jules Feiffer

“This Will Be Fun.” On the Life and Times of a Comics Master, Jules Feiffer

Paul Morton Considers the Artist Who Took “Aim at the Radical Middle”

By Paul Morton | February 7, 2025

What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

Webb Keane on the Anthropology Behind Our Relationship With Artificial Intelligence

By Webb Keane | February 7, 2025

For Andreas Malm, the Destruction of Gaza Runs Parallel to the Destruction of the Planet

For Andreas Malm, the Destruction of Gaza Runs Parallel to the Destruction of the Planet

“This is the end of the world that never ends.”

By Andreas Malm | February 6, 2025

Carving Our Canoes: On the Value of Building a Communal Life in an Atomized World

Carving Our Canoes: On the Value of Building a Communal Life in an Atomized World

Tyson Yunkaporta Considers the Possibilities and Limits of Indigenous Knowledge For Relieving Contemporary Malaise

By Tyson Yunkaporta | February 6, 2025

Does Any of This Matter? Am I the Literary Asshole?

Does Any of This Matter? Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | February 6, 2025

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Pádraig Ó Tuama on Patricia Smith, Poems as Acts of Noticing, and the Power of Good Teachers

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How a Norwegian Scientist Used Unconventional Means to Reach the North Pole

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Neil Shubin on Fridtjof Nansen and the Scientific Legacy of 19th-Century Arctic Exploration

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Thomas Dai on Mapping, Naming, Borders, and Immigration

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In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

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Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s <em>Home to Harlem</em>

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Belinda Edmondson on the Peripatetic Perspective of a Landmark Novel

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The Pursuit of Happiness: How Do We Find Purpose and Fulfillment in a Chaotic World?

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Shigehiro Oishi Considers the Factors and Practices That Lead to a Meaningful Life

By Shigehiro Oishi | February 5, 2025

Sweet (But Not Too Sweet): 6 Essential Literary Love Stories

Sweet (But Not Too Sweet): 6 Essential Literary Love Stories

Jessica Soffer Recommends Ocean Vuong, Emma Straub, Andre Aciman, and More

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A Friendship Across the Color Line: How Shared Southern Roots Brought a Black Writer and a White Editor Together

A Friendship Across the Color Line: How Shared Southern Roots Brought a Black Writer and a White Editor Together

Tess Chakkalakal on the Unlikely Literary Partnership Between Charles W. Chesnutt and Walter Hines Page

By Tess Chakkalakal | February 5, 2025

Inside the Climate Techno-Dystopia of Michel Nieva’s <em>Dengue Boy</em>

Inside the Climate Techno-Dystopia of Michel Nieva’s Dengue Boy

Rahul Bery on Translating a Stylistically Innovative Work of South American Science Fiction

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