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

How to Be a Grown-Up

Redefining the traditional markers of adulthood

The Many Faces of Aeneas

How Virgil plays with our collective memory

Red Star Avant Garde

How contemporary artists made China modern

What’s Happening in Myanmar

Understanding the military coup in Myanmar

Home Alone, with 200,000 Friends

Coming to terms with the critters we live with

All in the Family

How the mob came to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and small towns across America

Death in Papua New Guinea

Chronicling the disappearance of an entire language—and everything else that goes with it

Looking In, Looking Out

Artist Betty Yu turns the camera on her family

The Father of Art History

The man behind the great men of the Renaissance

A Solstice Send-Off

A Slavic folktale to tell around the holiday fire

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