Kinship and Contradictions
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity
Overconsumed
Adam Minter on what happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard
Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming
Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things
American Horror Story
Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear
The Writing on the Wall
Augustine Sedgewick on his discovery of Henry David Thoreau’s connection to slavery
This Woman’s Work
Susannah Gibson opens the parlor doors on 18th-century feminism
Queen of the Night
Leigh Ann Henion embraces the creatures that light up the dark
A Toothsome Tale
Bill Schutt chomps through millennia to share the story of our pearly whites
A Rebel to Remember
Gregory P. Downs on the late Anthony E. Kaye’s groundbreaking history of Nat Turner
Going for Gold
Joshua Prager on a forgotten Olympic gymnast whose 1904 record still hasn’t been beaten
