I’d like to take [Latiné Heritage Month] as an invitation to probe the notion of sovereignty not as a condition granted, but ...

Firms like Philip Morris hold rights that exceed those of most humans. Estates speak for the dead. Trusts speak for the ...

Danielewski, it seems, is not acting as a writer here, but as a hoarder of phrases, the more redolent of a vanished “Western” ...

Max Lawton is a writer, musician, and translator. He is currently working in close collaboration with Vladimir Sorokin to ...

Lily Balloffet is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Argentina in the Global Middle East (Stanford University Press, ...

Informed by Indigenous Andean knowledge, Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution broke legal ground by enshrining “Rights of Nature,” allowing anyone to litigate on behalf of damaged ecosystems. 1 In 2018, the ...

Given Meursault’s unreliable narration and narrative interiority, The Stranger proves challenging to adapt. While the first-person novella suggests Meursault’s attitudes and philosophies brand him the ...

The boxes were stacked en masse outside our door, addressed in my mother-in-law’s exquisite handwriting. We had been warned. Our friends had also experienced the phenomenon of aging parents cleaning ...

Avi Shlaim, historian and influential scholar of Israel’s relationship with the Arab world, joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri ...

Rachel Cusk’s new novel, Life of M, is essentially plotless. It bears an ambivalent, sometimes winking, relationship to character. It is suffused with meditations on art, freedom, and femininity in ...

Patrice Lawrence talks with Felecia Russell, author of Amplifying Black Undocumented Student Voices in Higher Education. I have spent a lot of time doing policy work, organizing work, and talking to ...

On the morning of February 1, 2026, Israeli military aircraft flew low over the Lebanese villages of Ras Naqoura and Aita al-Shaab, spraying agricultural fields with a fine mist. Lebanese authorities ...