An Island Is the Center of the World By Catherine Carberry March 6, 2017 His daughter and wife had left the island because they said it was shrinking. Fiction AmericasFamily & RelationshipsTravel & Adventure
Profile Sanctuary By J. Malcolm Garcia March 6, 2017 Under threat of deportation, a Mexican man who has made his life, and a family, in Arizona for more than twenty-five years takes indefinite refuge in a Phoenix church. AmericasJusticeUSA
Profile I, Cyborg By Jennifer Gersten February 27, 2017 The leaders of the cyborg movement invite humanity to design itself. What happens if we accept? The Future of the Body Arts & CultureBodies & NatureTechnology & the Future
Interview Kameelah Rasheed: Who Will Survive in America? By Imani Roach March 6, 2017 The visual artist on “the stutter” in history, strategic opacity, and Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter. Arts & CulturePoliticsRace
Poetry The Land of Uz By Ejiọfọr Ugwu February 13, 2017 I have no debt to the worms except / wads of silk. Bodies & NatureConflict
Poetry TIME GRAVE By Patty Yumi Cottrell February 20, 2017 For breakfast I ask for a fine blue world The Future of the Body Bodies & Nature
Lives Mirror Pain By Jessie Male March 7, 2017 A daughter reflects on her mother’s life with polio Family & RelationshipsHealth
Commentary The Night and Nightingale By Nathalie Handal March 1, 2017 I ran my hands through his hair as if counting the seconds of my life. The Kiss ConflictFamily & RelationshipsMENA
Interview Melissa Febos: Detaching to Connect By Eric Farwell February 27, 2017 The author on authenticity, ancestry, and multiple selves. AmericasBodies & Nature
Commentary In The Salesman, the Dark Drama of Everyday Life By Sholeh Wolpé February 27, 2017 The Iranian Oscar winner for best foreign film is a suspenseful meditation on the nature of truth. Oscars 2017 Arts & Culture
Fiction Foster Homeland By Shastri Akella February 27, 2017 Amid the ruins, against the overcast sky, the book spines rose like a bouquet of roses. Arts & CultureConflictFamily & Relationships
Interview Dr. Sandra Soo-Jin Lee: Toward a More Precise Genetics By Lynette Chiu February 27, 2017 The medical anthropologist on the imperative to move beyond race in genetic research and the explanatory power of life experience and inequality. The Future of the Body Bodies & NatureRace
Fiction Aleppo Mince By Selahattin Demirtaş, translated from Turkish by Nicholas Glastonbury February 25, 2017 Sixty-eight dead lives. Guernica/PEN Flash Fiction ConflictMENA
Review Who Is You, Man? By Sasha Bonét February 24, 2017 The black masks of Frank Ocean, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and W.E.B. Du Bois in Barry Jenkins' Moonlight. Oscars 2017 Bodies & NatureGenderRace
Essay Roger Ebert, Wikipedia Editor By Quenton Miller February 23, 2017 Why would the most influential critic of his generation post opinions anonymously in a distant corner of the Internet? Arts & Culture
Review Against La La Land By Jess Goldschmidt February 23, 2017 Damien Chazelle’s so-called homage to movie musicals carelessly pillages a fraught form, reifying the tradition’s latent racism, classism, and sexism. Oscars 2017 Arts & CultureHistoryRaceUSA