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Theater of Forgiveness By Hafizah Geter Feature Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.
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Searching for Insights from Her Father’s Delusions By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When a journalist tries to understand her father’s claims of CIA surveillance, she learns to see her digital world in a very different light.
Living with Dolly Parton By Jessica Wilkerson Feature Asking difficult questions often comes at a cost.
The Masterless People: Pirates, Maroons, and the Struggle to Live Free By Longreads Feature In the “bizarre and horrifying world” of the early modern Caribbean, maroons and pirates both prized their freedom above all else. And sometimes they worked together to safeguard it.
The Strongest Woman in the Room By Kitty Sheehan Feature A daughter recounts her family’s worst day, through her mother’s eyes.
When It’s Time to Say Goodbye to the Old House By Siddhartha Mahanta Feature Siddhartha Mahanta looks back at the small suburban starter house in Texas that helped his immigrant father redefine “home.”
The Return of the Face By Adrian Daub Feature Physiognomy is a discarded 19th-century pseudoscience. Why can’t we stop practicing it?
To Heil, or Not To Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich By Longreads Feature One of the first decisions any tourist had to make when crossing the German border in the mid-1930s was whether or not to “Heil Hitler.”
Celebrating a Profound Literary Inheritance: Glory Edim on the Well-Read Black Girl Anthology By Joshunda Sanders Feature Glory Edim talks about editing her new anthology, the push for equity in publishing, and how black women writers have written themselves into spaces that neglect or ignore them.
Elena Ferrante and the “My Brilliant Friend” Adaptation for HBO By Danielle Jackson Highlight Merve Emre interviews Elena Ferrante about an upcoming HBO adaptation of her novel, “My Brilliant Friend.”
Remembering Ntozake Shange By Danielle Jackson Commentary The poet, novelist, and playwright Ntozake Shange died Saturday, October 27.
Nic and David Sheff on ‘Beautiful Boy’ and Telling Addiction Stories Responsibly By Zachary Siegel Feature Nic and his father David Sheff’s memoirs about grappling with Nic’s addiction are the basis for the new movie ‘Beautiful Boy.’ It was important to them that the movie communicate what addiction really is — an illness.
After World War I, Horror Movies Were Invaded By an Army of Reanimated Corpses By Longreads Feature Were early horror films, with their long, angry processions of the undead, repeating the mass trauma of the First World War, or foreshadowing the coming of the Second?
Elena Ferrante and the “My Brilliant Friend” Adaptation for HBO By Danielle Jackson Highlight Merve Emre interviews Elena Ferrante about an upcoming HBO adaptation of her novel, “My Brilliant Friend.”
Remembering Ntozake Shange By Danielle Jackson Commentary The poet, novelist, and playwright Ntozake Shange died Saturday, October 27.
Let’s Talk About Sex Scenes By Soraya Roberts Feature Countless women have been mistreated ever since sex became common on our screens. Hollywood’s newfound awareness of intimacy choreography can help change things.
On Blackface, Bert Williams, and Excellence By Danielle Jackson Commentary A complicated racial anxiety rests at the heart of American entertainment.
The Others: Why Women Are Shut Out of Horror By Soraya Roberts Feature Horror movies give more screen time to strong female characters and attract a large female audience. But few female filmmakers get to work on them.
A Confederacy of (Dangerous) Dunces By Sari Botton Highlight Rebecca Solnit argues that the American Confederacy lives on, with Donald Trump at the helm.
The Resplendent Photography of Carrie Mae Weems By Danielle Jackson Highlight Carrie Mae Weems may be our best contemporary photographer.
The Secrets We Keep By Deena ElGenaidi Feature Deena ElGenaidi takes stock of the truths she and her Muslim family members hide from one another.
Theater of Forgiveness By Hafizah Geter Feature Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.
After World War I, Horror Movies Were Invaded By an Army of Reanimated Corpses By Longreads Feature Were early horror films, with their long, angry processions of the undead, repeating the mass trauma of the First World War, or foreshadowing the coming of the Second?
