Andrew Rankin on Japan’s infamous underworld

Susan Stryker on her new book, Changing Gender

Christopher Kondrich on his poems of climatic catastrophe

Amanda L. Andrei on her relationship with the Romanian language and her Romanian father

Jessica Hopper shines a spotlight on the too-often-overlooked women of rock history

Adrian Tinniswood dissects the myth of the deteriorating British estate

Jennie Durant on the vicious cycle involving beekeepers and almond farms

A. D. Jameson on how the nerds finally won

Zayd Ayers Dohrn on growing up on the run and in his parents’ revolutionary shadow

Jamie Loftus on the wild American world of hot dogs