How Many “Types” of Stories Are There? And Can They Save Us?

How Many “Types” of Stories Are There? And Can They Save Us?

David Chrisinger on Trying to Tell the Story of His Family

By David Chrisinger | July 7, 2021

Adam Serwer on the Cruelty of Politics and the Politics of Cruelty

Adam Serwer on the Cruelty of Politics and the Politics of Cruelty

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | July 7, 2021

Surviving Tough Love: Growing Up as the Child of Chinese Immigrants

Surviving Tough Love: Growing Up as the Child of Chinese Immigrants

Elina Zhang on the Lessons of Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things

By Elina Zhang | July 7, 2021

Sally Rooney hasn’t read your Internet novels.

Sally Rooney hasn’t read your Internet novels.

By Walker Caplan | July 6, 2021

Watch the new trailer for the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's

Watch the new trailer for the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's "Drive My Car."

By Walker Caplan | July 6, 2021

No, you can’t “steal” from a Little Free Library.

No, you can’t “steal” from a Little Free Library.

By Walker Caplan | July 6, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
  • Cloudthief
  • Cool Machine
  • Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
  • Beginning Middle End
  • They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

Nikole Hannah-Jones has declined an offer of tenure at UNC to join the faculty at Howard University.

By Vanessa Willoughby | July 6, 2021

On the Dancing Craze That
Swept Post-WWI Paris

By Dominique Kalifa | July 6, 2021

On E.M. Forster’s Maurice and the Urgency of Expanding Queer Genealogies

By William di Canzio | July 6, 2021

A Daughter of the Samurai: On the Strength, Tradition, and Rebellion of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

A Daughter of the Samurai: On the Strength, Tradition, and Rebellion of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

Karen Tei Yamashita and Yuki Obayashi Discuss the Memoir of an Extraordinary Life

By Karen Tei Yamashita and Yuki Obayashi | July 6, 2021

The Gateway to Friendship: How and—Why—I Befriended a Wild Fox

The Gateway to Friendship: How and—Why—I Befriended a Wild Fox

Catherine Raven on Interspecies Empathy and an Unexpected Furry Companion

By Catherine Raven | July 6, 2021

You Are Not Your Pain: On Depression, Self-Sabotage, and Emotional Resilience

You Are Not Your Pain: On Depression, Self-Sabotage, and Emotional Resilience

Matt Haig Considers the Downfalls of Binary Thinking

By Matt Haig | July 6, 2021

Would the Film Industry Exist Without California?

Would the Film Industry Exist Without California?

Mick LaSalle in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 6, 2021

What is Deep-Sea Mining Doing to the Planet?

What is Deep-Sea Mining Doing to the Planet?

Helen Scales on What’s at Stake For the Earth’s Biodiversity

By Helen Scales | July 6, 2021

Gina Rae La Cerva: The Life Story of a Family Recipe

Gina Rae La Cerva: The Life Story of a Family Recipe

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | July 6, 2021

Here are June's best reviewed books.

Here are June's best reviewed books.

By Book Marks | July 2, 2021

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