Theater of Shadows
Beneath or beyond the performances lay the fascination of the shadow-world itself, with its hiddenness, its refusal of color, its indifference to familiar effects of visual precision and detail.
Report
Enemies of the Public
Amid chaos, repression, and violence, one woman flees Boko Haram; another seeks it out.
Interview
Back Draft: Emily Wilson
The translator on being drawn to Homer, and the timelessness of toxic masculinity.
Interview
Emma Eisenberg: Holding Contradiction
The author of The Third Rainbow Girl on internalizing shame, creating healing, and scrambling gender in a place where “the earth loves you and also wants to kill you.”
Essay
Beasts of the Fields
Family heartache on the northern New York border, and the creatures that bore witness to it.
Interview
Katherine Rowland: The Force of Women’s Longing
The public-health researcher and author of The Pleasure Gap on the medicalization of women’s sexuality, the politics of “faking it,” and why female desire “inspires panic and fascination.”
Fiction
Notes from a Nothing
Here I am at graduation, lifting a leg under the white gown of purity, to show off a new pump.
Commentary
What About Your Grandmother, Jeanine?
The author of American Dirt has begun to claim her Puerto Rican heritage. But when the island needed her, she was busy writing an exploitative tale about Mexico.
Commentary
Hanif Abdurraqib and the Performance of Grief
On the particular braiding of grief and nostalgia that animates the poet-slash-critic's work.
Report
Mapping the End of the World
A polar scientist and a heavy-metal band depict global climatic dystopia.
Commentary
A Cold, White Sport in a Warming World
In the battle for hockey’s future, it's a question of #grit vs. Gritty.
