Holy Lands
Amanda Sthers
"Dear Rabbi Cattan, I’ve followed all of your instructions ever since moving to Israel to breed pigs. I put them in a stilt pen over the sea just like the Hawaiians do. Not a single hoof will touch Holy Ground. Except, of course, if you agree that we should use them to hunt down terrorists."
She Designs Books: Anne Twomey and Nicole Caputo Celebrate Women in Book Design
On Reading Women with Kendra Winchester and Autumn Privett
Talent
Juliet Lapidos
"We met at the supermarket. I was waiting in line to buy the usual nutrient-free snacks—crackers, cookies, Pop Tarts. She pulled up behind me with a cart full of staples—milk, eggs, canned tomatoes. As we neared the register, she unbuttoned her bright orange trench coat and searched its inside pocket. Whatever she expected to find there was missing."
Diary of a Shutdown: A Furloughed Worker Watches 24 Hours of CNN
On the Mundane Horror of Government Shutdown News
David Treuer on the Myth of an Edenic, Pre-Columbian ‘New’ World
Indigenous American Civilizations Are Far Older and More Complex Than History Suggests
Why Can’t Sisters Get Along? A Reading List
From Edith Wharton to J. Courtney Sullivan, a Literature of Sibling Friction
An Account of the Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard by the Police Officer, Lynwood Shull
A Decorated WWII Veteran Returns to the Jim Crow South
On the Absurdities of Law on the US-Mexican Border
"I tried to imagine what heritage a border could have."
Why Does This Small Vermont Town Have So Many Olympians?
“I don’t know if it’s the well water or what.”
Literary Disco Considers the Genius of Tommy Orange
In the Latest Episode, Julia, Rider, and Tod Talk There, There
Did Diderot’s Legacy Live Up To His Genius?
How the 18th-Century Philosopher Was Forgotten and Rediscovered
Why I Started Publishing an ‘Indigenous Version’ of My Articles
Jenni Monet on Fighting Erasure in Colonized Newsrooms
How Do You Save an Endangered Species in a Warzone?
The Race to Save the Asiatic Cheetah in Afghanistan
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