In the wake of the forever wars, the U.S. military has largely looked the other way while criminality and violence pervade its largest base.

The beloved author’s memoir recounts her relationship with the eccentric, abusive, protofeminist Mrs. Roy.

Will There Ever Be Another You is a lyrical, chaotic journal of holy and profane dispatches from our grief-soaked timeline.

By restricting circulation of his work and cultivating an intimate yet prominent group of friends who championed it, the “poet of Alexandria” helped ensure his stature would only grow after his death.

The essays in Jamaica Kincaid’s Putting Myself Together: Writings 1974– track the maturation of one of our most distinguished writers.

Daniela Catrileo explores Indigenous identity and the rural-urban divide from an intimate, feminist perspective in her newly translated novel, Chilco.

Journalist Rebecca Grant shifts the abortion conversation away from laws and morals to focus on access: getting people the care they seek.

Ross Barkan’s engrossing, literary analysis of the 2024 election disappoints with its blinkered vision of U.S. politics.

A roving history makes the case for shade’s centrality to public health, climate adaptation, and even a more robust and inclusive public sphere.

Financiers have bamboozled the public for years about their expertise in “fixing” companies. Yet they often—and sometimes deliberately—run them into the ground.

It is getting harder for Donald Trump to deny his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

The Cycles of American History foresaw American voter dealignment, and an electronic age that would see voters prioritize personality over party—but it didn’t anticipate Trump.

Street vending has become a necessary alternative for many to make ends meet, forging a sense of solidarity while reinforcing inequities.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the Supreme Court was actually enabling censorship.

The Supreme Court determined parents can “opt out” of letting their children see LGBTQ books in the classroom.

How FDR invented national security, and why Democrats need to move on from it

Alice Bolin’s essay collection, Culture Creep, interrogates the preoccupation with 2000s-era icons and aesthetics—and how it prevents us from engaging with their more noxious elements.

The Möbius Book explores love, faith, and cliché—​but its experiments in form don’t live up to their promise.

Is MLM a massive scam or an all-American business tradition—or both?

Charlottesville reaches into Virginia’s past to trace the currents that led to the violent neo-Nazi rally.