Essay Game, scam, cult: The many faces of QAnon July 17, 2026 When viewed within the corpus of 4953 similar posts that accreted over the months between October 2017 and December 2020, Drop #199 was nothing out of the ordinary. Read More
Essay What it means to lose a farm July 17, 2026 There are only three times when a farm receives a lot of visitors: during an open house after expanding, after the farmer gets seriously injured, and when the farm sells out and auctions its machinery. My father experienced all three. Read More
Essay How to succeed in college the old-fashioned way July 16, 2026 Around two thousand years ago, in a Greek city that had long been both politically and culturally under the sway of the Roman empire, a teenaged boy named Nicander participated in a coming-of-age ritual. Read More
Essay A new biography of Darwin July 01, 2026 This idea for this book began with a simple question: Why do so many modern biologists have a picture of Charles Darwin hanging in their laboratories? Read More
Essay The uneaten artichoke: Notes from a French village July 01, 2026 If you鈥檙e truly devoted to observing plant patterns in nature, you learn that hunger can wait. Read More
Interview Christen E. Civiletto on Thundering Waters June 30, 2026 Interweaving environmental crime, history, and memoir, Thundering Waters exposes the astonishing story of exploitation and ongoing abuse lurking in the shadows of one of the world鈥檚 most treasured natural wonders. Read More
Essay Jaws (1975): A study of American masculinity June 30, 2026 When I first saw Jaws聽in the 1980s, I was probably about 9 or 10 years old, and I was plum terrified. I was terrified of the shark, obviously, but even more terrified of the water鈥攖he idea that the monster could be right underneath you or your boat, but you couldn鈥檛 access him or see him. Read More
Essay Americans and Europeans must learn from each other on free speech June 25, 2026 Americans and Europeans fundamentally misunderstand one another on free speech. Read More
Essay 快色直播 that speak for themselves June 18, 2026 June is Audiobook Month, a tradition that began decades ago to spotlight an emerging format. Nearly 30 years later, it鈥檚 something much bigger: a celebration of how audiobooks have transformed the way we experience ideas, stories, and scholarship. Read More
Essay Did James Joyce鈥檚 Christmas dinner scene actually take place? June 16, 2026 The Christmas dinner scene in "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" has become shorthand, or cultural signifier, for family harmony disrupted by politics. Read More
Interview Joycelyn Longdon on Natural Connection June 16, 2026 Natural Connection draws on the legacies and ongoing resistance of marginalised communities around the globe to guide us toward a more sustainable relationship with the living world. Read More
Essay Selling the Great 快色直播 June 01, 2026 There is some wordless knowledge in these books, some sense of integrity and some understanding of the universe, that is conveyed by exposing yourself to what Matthew Arnold called 鈥渢he best which has been thought and said鈥�. Read More
Essay From intensive to (over)invested June 01, 2026 Allison Daminger and Nina Bandelj discuss what parenting has become. Read More
Interview Kira Ganga Kieffer on Unvaccinated Under God May 28, 2026 Kira Ganga Kieffer shows that debates over vaccine safety and mandatory vaccination are about more than diseases or injections. They have been proxies for existential concerns about justice and morality. Kieffer argues that vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. should be understood as religious expression鈥攏ot as the product of scientific misinformation. Read More
Interview Laura B. McGrath on Middlemen May 22, 2026 Chronicling the story of literary agents in the United States from the 1950s to today, in Middlemen, Laura McGrath uncovers their critical role in the making of American literature. Read More
