1+ hour, 44+ min ago  (1078+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Emma Heaney spoke with Durba Mitra on Zoom in February 2026 about this vital history of Third World feminism and the place of feminist visions for the future in our world now. Durba Mitra…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (593+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship You reading this book, who are you? What is your face like, your hands holding the pages, the child forsaken in you, who now looks through your eyes at mine? "Muriel Rukeyser, The…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (343+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship What gets lost in this telling is how both the prude and the sex magician (for this is what Craddock became) sought the redemption of the white race. Well-intentioned but defensive stories that…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (281+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship When Rishi's boss, Eric, asks how he is positioned in the days leading up to the government's emergency budget announcement, Rishi responds: "I am long sterling." He has bet that the value of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (869+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship I corresponded with Amber leading up to the book's publication to discuss food as inseparable from our political outlook, and as "fuel for the act of seeking." As you say, such a withdrawal…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (535+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship The unchecked executive power commanding masked border agents in Chicago, Minneapolis, and rural communities across the US has been decades in the making. In 1986, a secret memo leaked an "Alien Terrorists and Undesirables…...

4+ week, 1+ hour ago  (335+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship In the early 1990s, both Republicans and Democrats rushed to prove who in US politics could be "tougher" on crime. Such bipartisan rhetoric echoed the fascist obsession with "purity" and "social order." At the…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (538+ words) Public Books a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship "Being undocumented during my formative years " meant that I always lived with fear," recalls Alberto Ledesma. "I thought that any misstep I took could endanger [my] entire family." An artist and…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (147+ words) Public Books a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Xochitl Gonzalez on "Last Night in Brooklyn" In this week's episode of Writing Latinos, we spoke with bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez about her new novel, Last Night in Brooklyn, a magnificent…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (219+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship This new reality feels like a dystopian fiction, but examples of cruelty toward immigrants and their families are quickly becoming the norm. And though the current Trump regime is driving this destruction, the…...