Essays

Afshan Jafar finds similarities between the historical treatment of immigrants and conditions under the pandemic.

Callie Hitchcock watches the 2017 Reese Witherspoon rom-com more times than is advisable.

V.M. Braganza talks about curating women writers at a distance and the stakes of Virginia Woolf’s room today.

A short story by Sarah Fuss Kessler on the nature of beauty and staring down gender standards.

Uilleam Blacker inspects the political and cultural controversies surrounding the Babi Yar Memorial Center in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Karna Basu looks at the intersection of self-interest and the current pandemic.

Dan DiPiero talks about music nostalgia during the pandemic and how it shapes his attitudes and politics.

Anthony Schneck finds lessons for today's pandemic in Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice."

Arthur McCaffrey looks at the growing appeals for and logic behind a universal basic income to address pandemic concerns.

Apoorva Tadepalli thinks about the lessons of Jane Jacobs and the lockdown of the city that gave her inspiration.