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The Hollowing of the Eighth AmendmentIn 1991 an inmate named Dee Farmer sued prison officials at the US Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, for violating the Eighth Amendment’s...
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Nîmes and Other DestinationsNîmes I was standing on a corner in Nîmes admiring the Maison Carrée, thinking that the roof of the Roman temple resembled the accent—the...
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Enormous Shifts in Consciousness“Palestine was a central part of the development of my political awareness, which was shaped by the cataclysmic American and American-backed...
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What Is a Supermarket?On February 26 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) moved to block the proposed union of two giants of food retailing, Kroger Company and Albertsons...
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Acts of LanguageSince the protests began on campuses throughout the United States, I have been struck by the verbal contortions many writers have gone through to...
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All That Floats and DriftsAs a flute player and admirer of the Atlanta hip-hop duo OutKast, I should be well placed to appreciate André 3000’s New Blue Sun. And so, if...
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The Problem of Other MindsMaggie Doherty and I have known each other for thirteen years, which I know because I met her at the same party where I met my husband. For the...
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HarmonyMy boyfriend dropped me at the Greyhound station in Great Falls, Montana. A January afternoon, already dark, and he had a long drive north ahead...
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Outstanding PersonalitiesIn our May 9 issue, Darryl Pinckney reviews an extensive survey of “the Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” at the Metropolitan Museum...
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Nowhere But UpOn July 16, 1964, James Gilligan, an off-duty police officer in New York, shot and killed a fifteen-year-old Black high school student, James...
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Israel’s Universities: The CrackdownOn April 18 Israeli police arrested the scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian at her home in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem. Now sixty-three, she...
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Written by PawCats were not, historically, great talkers (unless you counted Siamese). For much of their existence they had not needed to be. Consigned to...
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A Past in All Its Fullness“We should remember that the people we study lived in a world crowded with invisible beings,” Peter Brown writes in our June 6, 2024 issue, as...
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‘You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught’Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, once kings of American culture, invented a new kind of musical theater in shows like Oklahoma!, Carousel,...
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Russian DecencyIn the investigative journalist Elena Kostyuchenko’s new book about Russia, resistance is carried out through small, discreet acts.
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Livelier Than the LivingIn the Renaissance, reading became both a passion and a pose of detachment—for those who could afford it—from the pursuits of wealth and power.
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D-Day’s Forgotten Victims Speak OutEighty years after D-Day, few know one of its darkest stories: the thousands of French civilians killed by a British and American carpet-bombing...
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The Tower and the SewerCatholic postliberal thinkers opposed to modern liberal individualism are less interested in transforming people's unhappy lives through the power...
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The Constant Presence of FearThe anthropologist Laurence Ralph has long written about the search for meaning in lives beset by conflict and crisis. In Sito, his new book about...
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Up on the RoofCarlos de Beistegui's Parisian penthouse apartment, designed by Le Corbusier, was the product of two supreme egotists squaring off against each...
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People Walk AroundPeople walk aroundWith people in their head.What some lovely person did.What some lovely person said.Heartthrob in the head. I float to 86th...
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Leaving the FoldThe memoir of a former nun who left her convent after twelve years reveals the contradictions of the monastic life as well as the limits of memoir.
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A Legacy of PlunderIn its reexamination of entrenched narratives about the expropriation of Native land, Michael Witgen’s work is changing how Native people are...
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Black AtlanticsThe scholar Louis Chude-Sokei does the urgent work of reimagining the African diaspora as multiple diasporas.
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I Can’t Stoprubbing the filters back and forththrough a knob on the screen that’s codedto brush glaze and bury echoeson photographs my oiled finger pads never...
