June 18, 2025
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“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
“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”
What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves
Webb Keane on the Anthropology Behind Our Relationship With Artificial Intelligence
How librarians saved the day in World War II.
Move over, Moneypenny. The first spies were nerds.
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.”
We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI
Surekha Davies on Machines, Monsters and Why Humanity is Still Worth Fighting For
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
Does Any of This Matter? Am I the Literary Asshole?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
Pádraig Ó Tuama on Patricia Smith, Poems as Acts of Noticing, and the Power of Good Teachers
From the Introduction to “44 Poems on Being with Each Other”
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“It reads as if it is trying to wrap its arms around the abundance of experience.”
The Annotated Nightstand: What Sarah Chihaya Is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Isabella Hammad, Roland Barthes, Katie Kitamura, and More
How a Norwegian Scientist Used Unconventional Means to Reach the North Pole
Neil Shubin on Fridtjof Nansen and the Scientific Legacy of 19th-Century Arctic Exploration
Thomas Dai on Mapping, Naming, Borders, and Immigration
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
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