Anjan Sundaram From Wars Abroad, to Peace at Home “As I’ve grown older, I’m more aware of the psychological risks we must take,” says the conflict-zone reporter. “Writing about my father represented such a psychological risk.” February 27, 2021
Nicole Rudick The Art of Bea Nettles A recent show and monograph bring into focus fifty years of her genre-defying photographic work, which adds up to an extraordinary visual autobiography. February 27, 2021
Aida Alami The Arab Spring at Ten A decade ago, countries across North Africa and the Middle East erupted in protests against their autocratic rulers. Five witnesses to those events tell what happened next. February 25, 2021
Anjan Sundaram No Direction Home My father chose to pursue a better life for our family through migration, without ever settling and putting down roots. Now, that is my inheritance. February 23, 2021
Molly Jong-Fast What the FBI Had on Grandpa J. Edgar Hoover thought Howard Fast was an un-American menace. To my family, he was just a menace, period. But his file tells a different story. February 21, 2021
Anne Enright Of Angels, Saints, and Faith in Fiction “I am interested in metaphor, that is where I get my fix of transcendence,” says the novelist. February 20, 2021
Jacob Kang-Brown America’s Hidden Gulag The nationwide federal detention of immigrants in county jails perpetuates a profit-driven system of mass incarceration. February 19, 2021
Frederic Wehrey The Lost Rivers of Owens Valley Water—who owns it, who uses it—has shaped this landscape from the Paiutes’ irrigation canals to the Los Angeles aqueduct. And it is a history in which my own family played a part. February 16, 2021
J. Hoberman The ‘Lost World’ of Vittorio De Seta These luminous shorts depicting the hardscrabble lives of fishermen, shepherds, peasants, and miners in rural Italy turn documentary into art film. February 14, 2021
Richard A. Friedman Why Conspiracy Theories Are So Alluring The human preference for plausible meaning over stubborn facts makes us especially susceptible in a world constantly flooded with information. February 12, 2021
