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Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

“Sometimes you hear an echo of a sound that has not yet been voiced, of a shot that has not yet been fired.”

By Ben Ehrenreich | April 15, 2024

Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

Alissa Quart Reckons With the Precarity of the Writing Life

By Alissa Quart | April 15, 2024

How Ordinary Irish Citizens Got Caught Up in the Violence of the Troubles

How Ordinary Irish Citizens Got Caught Up in the Violence of the Troubles

Henry Hemming on Bloody Sunday, Frank Hegarty, and Life in the IRA

By Henry Hemming | April 15, 2024

Considering the Lessons of the Cold War for the Next Great Power Rivalry

Considering the Lessons of the Cold War for the Next Great Power Rivalry

Adam E. Casey on America, China, and the Future of Revolutionary Rule

By Adam E. Casey | April 15, 2024

How Colonial Powers Fought for Economic Dominance in North America

How Colonial Powers Fought for Economic Dominance in North America

Hampton Sides on Britain’s Generations-Long Search for the Northwest Passage

By Hampton Sides | April 15, 2024

A syllabus for fans of <em>You Must Remember This.</em>

A syllabus for fans of You Must Remember This.

By Brittany Allen | April 12, 2024

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What Obituaries Can Tell Us About How the World Views Artists

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A Woman Out of Time: Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel <em>The Last Man</em>

A Woman Out of Time: Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel The Last Man

In Praise of a Truly Innovative Writer

By Rebecca Solnit | April 9, 2024

When a 24-Year-Old Ian Fleming Went to Moscow to Cover a “Show” Trial

When a 24-Year-Old Ian Fleming Went to Moscow to Cover a “Show” Trial

“Russia is ruled by an army of executioners with the Lubyanka as the headquarters of death.”

By Nicholas Shakespeare | April 9, 2024

What the Shadowy History of Women’s Health Tells Us About Its Uncertain Future

What the Shadowy History of Women’s Health Tells Us About Its Uncertain Future

Clare Beams on the Dark Legacy of a Purported Pregnancy Miracle Drug

By Clare Beams | April 9, 2024

Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide

Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide

“Poetry’s belatedness hauntingly echoes international law’s belatedness when it comes to defining genocide.”

By Philip Metres | April 9, 2024

Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

Mairead Small Staid Considers What It Means to Not Recognize Ourselves and the Ones We Love

By Mairead Small Staid | April 8, 2024

The Past is a Fairy Tale: On Remembering and Forgetting in Modern Ireland

The Past is a Fairy Tale: On Remembering and Forgetting in Modern Ireland

Clair Wills Considers the Making of Her Mother’s Family Fables

By Clair Wills | April 3, 2024

The Chronicler of Asian America: Hua Hsu on Photographer and Activist Corky Lee

The Chronicler of Asian America: Hua Hsu on Photographer and Activist Corky Lee

“We await our moment, in pursuit of the picture that Corky envisaged, a portrait of a community that is too large and too brilliant.”

By Hua Hsu | March 28, 2024

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