After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, friends asked me whether I was worried for my four-year-old daughter’s future, specifically her access to legal abortion. My answer: not in California, and not with an abortion provider for a mom. In the worst-case scenario, I joked, I could perform her abortion in my […]
Since about the beginning of the present century, authoritarianism has been on the rise the world over. In China, Xi Jinping has positioned himself as the country’s ruler for life, ending what had been a halting, fitful movement toward the rule of law; in Russia, Vladimir Putin has consolidated absolute power and tried to destroy […]
In the days since the election, I’ve found myself revisiting an essay on the journalist’s role in a free society by the Reverend Levi Jenkins Coppin, editor of the AME Church Review, included in Irvine Garland Penn’s influential 1891 volume The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. “The journalist is the people’s attorney,” Coppin wrote, at […]
One emerging consensus in these post-election days is that woke ideology has lost. Harris ran an impressively unwoke campaign. But as James Carville said, “we couldn’t get the stench off” the woke messages transmitted by, among others, the old white man in the White House. It’s less clear who, or what, has won. Understanding this […]
I feel we’ve been circling the drain for months and now are being rinsed down the plughole. Hello, darkness, my old friend. I’m nauseous and have difficulty breathing. If I looked in the mirror—which I do often these days, purely as a function of disbelief, because I feel I no longer exist—I fancy I would […]
Donald Trump’s election places a new burden on a Supreme Court already operating under a harsh public spotlight. This is a Court, after all, that in recent months has rejected a constitutional challenge to Trump’s ballot eligibility and granted him a stunning measure of immunity from criminal prosecution. Going forward, the justices—including but not limited […]
When did our first linguistic ancestor emerge, and how did the transition from a nonlinguistic to a linguistic state take place?
Eliza Barry Callahan’s The Hearing Test seems to be about a temporary loss of hearing but is actually one woman’s rehearsal for the losses that come, unbidden, for us all.
The Supreme Court will rule this term on whether a Tennessee law denying minors treatment for gender dysphoria discriminates on the basis of sex.
For Shakespeare’s characters the possibility of a second chance could be their undoing or their salvation. For the playwright, his words gave him many lives.
H.H. Richardson invented a practical, adaptable style for American civic architecture that was used for decades after his death.
A century after Upton Sinclair exposed the inhumane and unhygienic conditions of Chicago’s stockyards, life for animals in America's factory farms and slaughterhouses is still gruesome.
Two recent books by poets embrace lyrical, subjective criticism to breach the porous border between verse and prose.
After the Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah decided to draw Lebanon into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, tit-for-tat bombings along the border with Israel overshadowed the country’s political and economic plight.
North Atlantic wind tries to tear the roof off the hill, throws all the sea’s abrasives at it, but the tuckamore grew up in this house, body shaped by the timeless occupation of a back bent low, hands in the dirt, working at the fasteners. It’s hard to think of anything more modestly and completely […]
Meticulously installed domestic spaces set the tone for Mickalene Thomas's current exhibition, which features the work for which she is best known: sumptuous portraits of Black women in repose—the artist’s mother, lovers, and friends.
In Look Away, Jacob Kushner draws a disturbing portrait of the white supremacist subculture that took hold across eastern Germany in the 1990s and now is making gains at the ballot box.
Richard Powers's Playground does for oceans what his 2018 novel The Overstory did for trees: it implores us to open ourselves to the ingenuity of life beyond the human.
In his book Every Valley, Charles King explains the enduring appeal of Handel's Messiah since its premiere in London nearly three hundred years ago.
The discipline of art history today is far more inclusive, more cognizant of social history, and less prone to normative aesthetic judgments—changes Svetlana Alpers helped bring about.
Glenn Fleishman’s history of the comic strip as a technological artifact vividly restores the world of newspaper printing—gamboge, Zip-A-Tone, flongs, and all.
Wild petunias slowly go blind and a starched nurse races to your bed to find your quick hawk gaze fixed on a blue mahoe branch scraping the louvre glass, its cellophane sound blurs a gesture of recoil or beckon that transmits the ginger lily’s rage and the coral ixora’s incandescent grief beyond my survivor’s guilt. […]
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Americans all across the nation are gathering today to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. What are you thankful for?
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