The Latest

Arts in Society

The Look of Disaster

Comic books can document the horrors of war better than photos.

  • Elizabeth Hand
Arts in Society

luam to her sibling

        —umbertide

  • Aracelis Girmay
Arts in Society

Evolution

We grew into creatures with thumbs, an appetite for meat, large brain-cases to conjugate verbs: about to be, desiring to have been, wishing to have had the capacity . . .

  • Alice Jones
Arts in Society

Eastern Standard

leeplessness has annexed 
     the morning
Province by province and, 
     helpless, I

Can only watch the successive
     suns
Burn like villages. . . .

  • Gerard Coletta
Arts in Society

Portrait of the Alcoholic with Craving

I’ve lost the unspendable coin I
     wore around

          my neck that protected me
     from you, leaving it . . .

  • Kaveh Akbar
Arts in Society

Listening Through Time

Reviving the Spoken ‘Aeneid’

  • Dale Smith

Sign up for our newsletter

Arts in Society

From “Their Names”

  • Emily Pettit
Science

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Quantum Field Theory

The mathematical language of particle physics.

  • Matthew Buckley
Arts in Society

Two Poems

  • Anaïs Duplan
Law

Chasing Lula

Bias and due process violations in Brazil’s massive corruption investigation.

  • Leonardo Avritzer
Gender & Sexuality Politics

Are Women the Silent Sex?

Getting women to participate in group decision-making takes more than superficial equality.

  • Tali Mendelberg
  • Christopher F. Karpowitz
Arts in Society

Flattened Children Are Inevitable

  • Albert Abonado
Arts in Society

Pictures of Elk

  • Noelle Kocot
Arts in Society

Floating Island

  • Nicole Cooley
Arts in Society

Continuity

  • Ari Banias
Arts in Society

My White Feminism

  • Juliana Spahr
Arts in Society

What You Put In Your Mouth

A new anthology creates a new canon of innovative Latin@ writing

  • Rachel Galvin
Arts in Society

Watch Us Elocute

  • Marcus Wicker
Arts in Society

Two Poems

  • Rebecca Zweig
Arts in Society

A Modern Marriage

A debut short story by an emerging Nigerian writer. Winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

  • Grace Oluseyi
Arts in Society

Driving in the Downpour

Translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi

  • Kim Hyesoon
Law Politics

Matters of Choice

Scholar and retired Army officer Andrew Bacevich on the U.S. war for the Greater Middle East

  • Andrew J. Bacevich
  • Stephen Kinzer
Arts in Society

Experience in Groups

  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien
Arts in Society

Vagenesis

  • Natalie Eilbert
trending_flat
Get our newsletter

Vital reading on politics, ideas, and culture to your inbox

A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975

Registered 501(c)(3) organization

Help Us Stay Paywall-Free

Donate

Become a Member

Subscribe