Against Redemption

Social media is filled with documentation of human suffering. So why read a tragic novel?

Bathed in an Arc of Fresh Light

What else is it we would want from love, apart from love?

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Against Redemption

Social media is filled with documentation of human suffering. So why read a tragic novel?

Bathed in an Arc of Fresh Light

What else is it we would want from love, apart from love?

The Agitator

The activist-academic Silvia Federici has never muted her message to get ahead. What’s the cost of refusing to sell out?

Tailpipe Katabasis

Oil Stories and/as Underworlds

Outside, People Were Crying, Or They Weren't

Is that bizarre? he asked. That such a brief experience of love was too much?

'America is Always in Therapy and Not Getting Much Out of It': An Interview with Jason Diamond

Talking to the author of The Sprawl about teen rage, community disconnection, and building better suburbs.

'Moments Are Part of a Pattern': An Interview with Rebecca Watson

The author of little scratch on rape narratives and the brutality and permanence of language. 

Time in NYC

He had Alex now, he thought. He wouldn’t feel those old pangs. But the loneliness greeted him like a—well, not so much like an old friend. But. You know. Like loneliness.

'It is Mysterious, Ultimately, How Art is Made': An Interview with Madhur Anand

The author of This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart on Partition, science, and perspective. 

'History Unaddressed Recurs': An Interview with Isabel Wilkerson

Speaking to the author of Caste about the insufficiencies of the term "racism," objectivity versus balance, and the opportunities America's coming demographic shift presents.