Philip Kitcher tells a tale of fate selection and the Democratic Primary.
How to Play Russian Roulette
Essays
Ducks, Summer
Alexandra Marraccini goes on a Twitter journey with "Ducks, Newburyport," Lucy Ellmann's ambitious 998-page single-sentence novel.
A Case for Reparations for Heirs of the Victims of Lynching
Gordon Marino makes a common-sense, serious case for reparations to be paid to descendants of lynching victims.
Frank O’Hara is Everywhere
Sophia Stewart discovers quotidian magic in O'Hara's poetry.
It’s All About Him
Joanna Chen sees some classic rock legends in Hyde Park, London.
Women Storming the Heavens?: On Soviets, Space, and Emancipation
Victoria Smolkin remembers Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova and the legacy of token diversity in the Space Race.
Poetry against ICE
Lida Maxwell considers the poetry of Jose Bello, an immigrant activist who defied ICE.
The Tax of Otherness: Lil Nas X and Queer Masculinity
Charles Dunst discusses Lil Nas X's defiant yet self-deprecating coming out.
What Trump Got Right About Homelessness
Susan Celia Greenfield discusses the lived experience of homelessness and why many opinions on it are wrong.
“La Femme Noir”: Untranslated and Unread
Rebecca Gross considers the underexplored literary works of Francophone Caribbean women and their role in the Négritude movement.
