I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long ...

The bombed elementary school in Iran appears to have become a target thanks to satellite imaging. In this case, what the image represented — and to who — was a matter of life and death.” ...

No other thinker, Hegelian Marxist or otherwise, has lived up to this modernist vocation with the originality, intellectual élan, aesthetic intelligence, and political trenchancy of Fredric Jameson.” ...

Rachel Cusk’s new novel, Life of M, is essentially plotless. It bears an ambivalent, sometimes winking, relationship to character. It is suffused with meditations on art, freedom, and femininity in ...

Patrice Lawrence talks with Felecia Russell, author of Amplifying Black Undocumented Student Voices in Higher Education. I have spent a lot of time doing policy work, organizing work, and talking to ...

In the latest installment of our partnership with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Webb Keane revisits Marshall Sahlins’s “The Original Affluent Society” on the occasion of ...

In the latest installment of our partnership with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Batja Mesquita sits down with Caitlin Zaloom to discuss her work on emotions. Can we ever ...

In this series commissioned by Matthew Wolf-Meyer, contributors explore the question: Can we reject the future? In Furiosa, Miller’s deliciously absurd flourishes in world-building are all in service ...

These iconic moments reveal how deeply football and politics shape each other in Argentina. The interplay between politics and football is examined in two recent books, which explore how Argentine ...

The proliferating forms and functions of artificial intelligence have loosened many lips. Across the theoretical and the political spectrum, initial reactions ranged from despair to anticipatory ...

In the latest installment of our partnership with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Alison Gopnik sits down with Ted Chiang to discuss the profound ways that humans care for ...