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An illustration of protesters from Revolutionary to current times all holding signs saying 'No Kings'

Eric Herschthal

The American Revolution Is Not Complete

Long after the founding, many ordinary Americans saw the Revolution as ongoing—an unfinished fight for freedom and equality.

Siri Hustvedt at the Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, in May 2026

William Giraldi

Siri Hustvedt’s Revelatory Examination of Grief

In her memoir Ghost Stories, grief is a form of knowledge—anguished and fragmentary, but knowledge nonetheless.

Anna Louie Sussman

Can Marriage Survive the Manosphere?

An idealized 1950s illustration of a bride and groom with the brides face cut out and surrounded by unhappy emojis

Anna Louie Sussman

Can Marriage Survive the Manosphere?

Books & the Arts

A tradwife, dressed in the typical early 1900s stuffy full skirt and apron reserved for rough domestic labor, stands trapped in a frontier-style cabin doorframe, which doubles as a smart phone screen prison. Mouth agape, her arms are pressed up against the glass of the phone screen in anguish whilst surrounded by farm livestock and tools, representing both the ironic harm and self-imprisonment perpetuated by the modern tradwife influencer, and the real harm done to women since the beginning of patriarchy.

Caro Claire Burke’s Thriller Captures a Tradwife’s Quiet Discontent

In Yesteryear, an influencer wakes up in the nineteenth century to find it’s nothing like Instagram.

Matthew Rhys stars in Widows Bay

Widow’s Bay Is a Menacing and Hilarious Mash-up

At a time when much TV recycles familiar formulas, the Apple TV series feels like something new.