Brian Turner: A Music That Suits Our Time on the Planet
The poet on his debut album—a tribute to and collaboration with his late wife, by The Interplanetary Acoustic Team—and the role of music in literary practice.
Essay
Russian Reversal: Performing Class and Power on Victory Day
The ways that Moscow commemorates victory over Nazi Germany bear a striking resemblance to the U.S.
Interview
The American Bourgeoisie Are the Revolutionaries
The writer on contemporary political fiction, his favorite court decision, and why he values ethics over empathy.
Fiction
I’m Sorry Your Daughter Got Eaten by a Cougar
They both freeze and stare at me. Did I make a noise? I didn’t realize. For a moment everything is silent. I am held in their golden eyes.
Interview
Roy Scranton: Some New Future Will Emerge
The author and Army veteran on climate change, war, and "the radical transformation of the basic structures of our existence."
Interview
John Fanning: Questioning is Political
The writer on resistance history in French Occitanie, dropping out to drop in, and cultivating spiritual presence as an artist.
Report
That Night, It Never Ends: A Story of Life With or Without Parole
Should a convicted murderer ever be given another chance?
AudioPoetry
Poet Wrestling with the Possibility She’s Living in a Simulation
One simulation to another, am I wrong.
Report
A State of Captivity: Immigrants Detained Repeatedly for Old Crimes
At a moment when compassion for the immigrant is already limited, the immigrant criminal is rarely on the receiving end of it. Yet it is inhumane to punish people multiple times for the same crime.
Interview
Kelly Sundberg: The Most Painful Things Anyone’s Ever Said To You
The writer on her new memoir about abuse, insidious forms of control, and the gendered expectations of forgiveness.
Fiction
The Spoils
“You’re an insufficient man,” Anna had said the day before the day she had asked for a divorce.
Interview
Robert Fieseler: Speaking Their Names
The author of "Tinderbox" on the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire, which until the Orlando shooting was the worst mass killing of gays in history.
Interview
Porochista Khakpour: Bodily Chaos
The author on her new memoir, SICK; searching for home; and her struggle to be heard by the medical establishment.
Essay
At the County Fair, a Fantasy of Whiteness
In Ohio, efforts to wipe the Confederate flag from local fairs have been met with a powerful silence.