Readings

What Makes a Border Be?

It's been a week of protesting the right to cross borders. But these lines aren't just geographic, they're economic and racialized, too. 

Eating Our Goodbyes

When a marriage ends, it doesn't always imply a deficiency. At least, not a personal one.

The First Two Days of the Next Four Years

Scenes from the inauguration of Donald Trump and the Women's March on Washington.

'I Wanted to Find a Way Out of Realism': Maren Ade on Toni Erdmann

The director of the Oscar-nominated comedy on her interest in role-playing, her love for Andy Kaufman and the fate of a particularly memorable piece of costuming.

Same New Archie Andrews

Making America's favourite redhead a 21st century man. 

'The Goal is to Change the Way You Think': An Interview with Roger Ross Williams

Speaking with the director of the Oscar-nominated Life, Animated about representation in documentary film. 

Lifting the Sword: David France on the Legacy of the AIDS Crisis

Speaking with the author of How to Survive a Plague about the early days of the disease, the unpredictable nihilism of the Trump government, and the evolution of lasting gay love.

Peekskill Blues

How a race riot in New York state inspired a generation to reconsider America's vulnerability to fascism. 

In Search of Black Atlantis

In order to find purpose and affirmation, Black artists rethink time and space as we know it to find a place for themselves.

Anger Too Big To Ignore

Before I read The View from Saturday, I saw anger as a luxury, a way to take up physical and emotional space that I didn’t think I deserved to occupy.