Lauren Greenfield: Generation Wealth
October 16, 2017
The photographer and chronicler of the nouveau riche on how keeping up with the Joneses became keeping up with the Kardashians.
Interview
Dr. Michael Fine: Crony Capitalism Is Bad for Your Health
October 5, 2017
The physician and reformer on how the market-based healthcare system makes Americans sick, and his plan to fix what ails us.
Lives
Waiting for Hurricane Irma
September 27, 2017
Me, myself, and Sarasota: a meditation on real and metaphorical storms.
Fiction
The Floating World
October 3, 2017
He saw what the storm had left in New Orleans: a gator flipped on its back, showing its pale belly. A wild boar with a shredded coat, hung by its tusks from a tree.
Interview
Eve Ewing: Other Means to Liberation
October 17, 2017
The poet and sociologist’s gleefully unorthodox work on blackness.
Interview
Chris Kraus: After Kathy Acker
October 16, 2017
The novelist, critic, and biographer on radical localism, the art of compensation, and the editor as auteur.
Commentary
The Family Dolls, Featuring Charlie, Leslie, & More
October 14, 2017
Why it's okay to play with Manson family paper dolls: The first six installments of John Reed's Manson Family Paper Doll book. Print & Color Yourself!
AudioPoetry
On a Lamp Post Long Ago
October 11, 2017
in case we have forgotten the word love, we will know its symbol
Interview
Sholeh Wolpé: If I Do Not Translate, It’s A Sin
October 5, 2017
The Iranian-American poet on translation as a salve for cultural divisions.
Interview
Holly Fitzgerald: Lost in the Jungle Again
October 5, 2017
Holly Fitzgerald discusses her memoir of a desperate month in the Peruvian wilderness.
Essay
Jew-in-the-Box
October 1, 2017
What Americans can learn from Germany’s confrontation with the past.
Essay
Drain the Swamp
September 28, 2017
Over fifty years ago, author J.G. Ballard was giving us words for today's hurricanes.
Commentary
Raising the Dead
September 27, 2017
An author’s visitation seems, in my students' eyes, a resurrection.