Plum Sykes: You Know It's Bad When Politics Gets Into Fashion

Plum Sykes: You Know It's Bad When Politics Gets Into Fashion

The Author of Party Girls Die in Pearls on Trump, Brexit, and Getting Political

By Plum Sykes | June 23, 2017

How Did America's Banks Get So Much Political Power?

How Did America's Banks Get So Much Political Power?

A New Book Traces These Origins to NYC's 1970s Financial Crisis

By Isaac Kaplan | June 22, 2017

9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

A Syllabus of Authoritarians Who Thought They Might Be Artists

By Ed Simon | June 21, 2017

Measuring the Decline of America's First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

Measuring the Decline of America's First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

Lawrence Lenhart Offers a Very Personal Case Study in Rust Belt Decline

By Lawrence Lenhart | June 20, 2017

Forrest Trump: On the Donald's Many Cameos in American Literature

Forrest Trump: On the Donald's Many Cameos in American Literature

Susan Rieger Finds Him Everywhere, From Twain to Wharton to Lewis...

By Susan Rieger | June 20, 2017

Daring to Drive (And Write About It) in Saudi Arabia

Daring to Drive (And Write About It) in Saudi Arabia

Speaking with Manal al-Sharif about Defiance and Disclosure

By Sabrina Toppa | June 19, 2017

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On 50 Years of Loving, That Most Radical of Acts

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The Literary Legacy of Occupy Wall Street

The Literary Legacy of Occupy Wall Street

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Saving Lives at Sea: Onboard a Migrant Rescue Ship in the Mediterranean

Saving Lives at Sea: Onboard a Migrant Rescue Ship in the Mediterranean

Writer Erri De Luca on a Two-Week Rescue Mission

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Andrew Wessels on an Accidental Return Home

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Seeking Refuge in Vinyl Records During China's Cultural Revolution

Seeking Refuge in Vinyl Records During China's Cultural Revolution

And the Bootleg Paganini Record That Instigated a Bloody Brawl

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Tales of Port-au-Prince: Letting Haitians Speak For Themselves

Tales of Port-au-Prince: Letting Haitians Speak For Themselves

Edwidge Danticat on a City of Survivors

By Edwidge Danticat | May 23, 2017

Looking For Home: Karen Russell on America's Housing Catastrophe

Looking For Home: Karen Russell on America's Housing Catastrophe

This Country's Greatest Natural Disaster is Manmade

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