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Colin Dickey
The Weaponization of Storytelling
The American public is more susceptible than ever to skewed narratives.
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Alice Robb
The Unexpected Afterlife of
Autobiography of a Face
Lucy Grealy’s 1994 bestseller has become part of a larger story of literary friendship and the boundaries between artists and their work.
June 14, 2024
Kaila Philo
The Internet Supercharged the Exploitation of Black Culture
Legacy Russell traces America’s reliance on—and profit from—Black imagery, from the 1910s to the Dancing Baby meme.
June 11, 2024
Eric Herschthal
What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920?
Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.
June 7, 2024
Emma Copley Eisenberg
The American Novel Has a Major Problem With Fat People
Why does fiction do such a bad job of portraying fat characters?
June 6, 2024
Mike Duncan
In the Ruins of Edward Gibbon’s Masterpiece
“Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” is an enduring work—just not of history.
May 31, 2024
Michael Friedrich
The Strange Villainization of the Walkable City
The 15-minute city proposed to shorten commutes and increase convenience. Why has it proven so divisive?
May 22, 2024
Audra J. Wolfe
What Was the “Paradigm Shift”?
When Thomas Kuhn coined the term, he wasn’t referring simply to “out of the box” thinking.
May 14, 2024
Jacob Bacharach
How Salman Rushdie Reckoned With an Unthinkable Attack
His memoir “Knife” answers violence with art, and explores the limits of the imagination.
May 8, 2024
Jacob Silverman
The Inventor of the Chatbot Tried to Warn Us About A.I.
Joseph Weizenbaum’s underrated book “Computer Power and Human Reason” cautioned against confusing people with machines.
May 3, 2024
Ben Metzner
Can You Be Anti-Zionist but Pro-Israel?
The Jewish studies professor Shaul Magid thinks it’s possible to resist Zionism without rejecting the state. He calls this “counter-Zionism.”
April 24, 2024
Colin Dickey
Lost in the Five Stages of Grief
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s “On Death and Dying” sparked a revolution in end-of-life care. But soon she began to deny mortality altogether.
April 19, 2024
Jack McCordick
Inside the Complicated World of Human Smuggling
Jason De León’s ambitious ethnography paints human smugglers not as inhuman villains but as individuals navigating an inhuman system.
April 18, 2024
Caitlin Zaloom
How the Suburbs Became a Trap
Neighborhoods that once promised prosperity now offer crumbling infrastructure, aged housing stock, and social animus.
April 10, 2024
Samuel Clowes Huneke
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What Benedict Anderson’s classic account of nationalism’s origins misses about today’s world.
April 2, 2024
Lily Meyer
Jennifer Croft’s Hunt for a Missing Author
When a vaunted writer goes missing in the forest, her translators search for her—and for the meaning of their craft.
March 27, 2024
Ed Burmila
The American Right’s Dictator Fan Club
From praise for Hitler and Mussolini to friendships with Putin and Orbán, open adoration for authoritarians is a defining feature of the American right.
March 25, 2024
Indigo Olivier
Unions Offer a More Promising Future Than Politicians
Labor unions are more popular than most elected officials. A labor journalist explains how they can build political power.
March 13, 2024
Jess Bergman
The Workplace Novel Comes to the Big Box Store
Adelle Waldman’s “Help Wanted” makes the case for retail warehouse work as a subject worthy of serious fiction.
March 1, 2024
Alexander Zaitchik
Amitav Ghosh’s Reckoning With Opium
His new book,
Smoke and Ashes
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