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

Twin Peaks

Reporting from the world’s highlines and highlands

The Fox in the Big House

Soviets, poetry, and foxes, oh my!

Out of the Closet and Into the Courts

How sex met the law, plus the coolest queen in Africa

All the Rage

Enlightenment, architecture, and a few Irish favorites

Unlikely Encounters

Between fact and fiction, poetry and motion, and Milton Friedman and China’s General Secretary

From Côte d’Ivoire to the California Coast

Plus: Phillip Lopate tells us a secret

Portraits of a Movement

Plus: our new visual arts blog, and a tour of Trump’s conflict of interest

Sounds Like a Revolution

An interview with Madeleine Thien, plus: catching up with Jessica Love on language

The Aftermath

Finding hope in unexpected places: prison, protest, and poetry

Fighting the Zika Virus with John Wayne (and John Aubrey)

Well, not exactly

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