Podcast Hillbilly Highway July 22, 2024 Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. Read More
Essay Auden in nature and history July 22, 2024 If you look at the volumes published so far in the Auden Critical Editions series, you鈥檒l see that, with the exception of the Juvenilia (a unique kind of text), they feature book-length works. Read More
Reading List In celebration of the simple act of listening July 18, 2024 World Listening Day is an opportunity for all of us to pause and hone our awareness of the world around us and practice the art of listening. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Slow Burn July 17, 2024 It鈥檚 hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. R. Jisung Park encourages us to view climate change through a different lens: one that focuses less on the possibility of mass climate extinction in a theoretical future, and more on the everyday implications of climate change here and now. Read More
Essay The life of American Afterlives July 12, 2024 I first became aware of Shannon Dawdy鈥檚 American Afterlives during the fall of 2019, when her friend and fellow New Orleanian, the literary scholar and 快色直播 author Bryan Wagner, suggested that she contact 快色直播 about her manuscript. Read More
Essay Volatile waters, fluid histories July 12, 2024 It can be depressing these days to read about the state of the world鈥檚 water supplies. This is a global problem, but it is undoubtedly most acute in the so-called global south, where population is growing fastest and water infrastructures are least robust. As pressing as these challenges are today, they have a long history. Read More
Essay Accounting for inequality July 10, 2024 Sitting in a Thai village with my collaborator, Anna Paulson, we began to wonder how to capture all the nuances of the reality of life of households and small entrepreneurs. Read More
Essay Ovid鈥檚 38 recommendations for getting over a breakup July 10, 2024 Ever gone through a breakup? You鈥檙e not alone. In the year 1 CE, the Roman poet聽Ovid published a poem titled "Remedies for Love", and it suggests that relationships haven鈥檛 changed much in two thousand years. Read More
Podcast Listen in: The Last Human Job July 05, 2024 With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. Read More
Podcast Breaking the Mold July 05, 2024 The whole world has a stake in India鈥檚 future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population鈥攏ow the world鈥檚 largest鈥攚hile staying democratic. Read More
Interview Linda Miller Feltner on Drawing Nature July 02, 2024 Drawing Nature is a visually stunning exploration of the artistic process by award-winning nature artist Linda Miller Feltner. Read More
Podcast How to Be Queer June 14, 2024 How to Be Queer is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and lust between men, between women, and between humans and gods, in lucid and lively new translations. Read More
Essay Liberalism may be the source of your soul June 14, 2024 The most obvious and important realities can sometimes be the hardest to think and talk about. Read More
Podcast Puerto Rico May 24, 2024 Jorell Mel茅ndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago鈥檚 people while offering a lens through which to understand the political, economic, and social challenges confronting them today. Read More
Podcast Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America May 23, 2024 A compelling history that mixes seriousness and humor, Slouch is a unique and provocative account of the unexpected origins of our largely unquestioned ideas about bad posture. Read More
