Phoebe Chen Perfect Recall In Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new film, a Scottish orchidologist moves through Colombia in pursuit of a lone, mysterious sound. August 18, 2022
Omar G. Encarnación The Revolt of Empty Spain A nonpartisan movement to bring attention to the depopulation of Spain’s countryside has begun to shape national politics. August 17, 2022
Sophie Pinkham Trade Exceptions In Brittney Griner, the Putin administration may have found the perfect hostage to leverage into a high-profile prisoner swap. August 14, 2022
Zephyr Teachout “Live in Fragments No Longer” “Surveillance makes worker coordination and solidarity harder, and big data makes capital coordination easier, so the need for both pro-labor and antitrust laws is greater than ever before.” August 13, 2022
Rachel Eisendrath I Killed a Man Back There If, as Hamlet claims, every play holds a “mirror up to nature,” what kind of mirror is Robert Icke’s production? August 10, 2022
Lucy Scholes Made Alone and Imperatively The British painter Maeve Gilmore found her muse in family and the home—but that refuge was not an idyll. August 5, 2022
Sheila Liming Old Story, New Money The Gilded Age plunders Edith Wharton’s books for period-appropriate ideas but revels in all the surfaces Wharton sought to puncture. August 3, 2022
Lola Seaton ‘Hope You’re Staying Cool’ The July heatwave that brought chaos to London has changed the way Brits see the sun. July 31, 2022
Hannah Zeavin Messages to the Medium “I tend to be obsessed with questions of mediated relations—what I call distanced intimacy.” July 30, 2022
Antonia Hitchens ‘Who Should Die for Me?’ In Estonia, the threat of Russian invasion and memories of Soviet occupation have led thousands to volunteer for their national defense. July 29, 2022
