As genocide unfolds in Gaza, we turn to platforms that profit from our witness. Are we fueling the very systems we seek to ...

From the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 to the advent of Gorbachev’s glasnost in the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union was ...

Firms like Philip Morris hold rights that exceed those of most humans. Estates speak for the dead. Trusts speak for the ...

I’d like to take [Latiné Heritage Month] as an invitation to probe the notion of sovereignty not as a condition granted, but ...

Danielewski, it seems, is not acting as a writer here, but as a hoarder of phrases, the more redolent of a vanished “Western” ...

Lily Balloffet is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Argentina in the Global Middle East (Stanford University Press, ...

Utilitarian public baths and pools once filled the world’s cities, but now new expensive spas are taking their place. Has even bathing become a luxury?

Camus opens the book with Meursault’s life, but François Ozon opens the new film adaptation with Meursault’s specific moment in history: the brutal French colonization of Algeria.

Max Lawton is a writer, musician, and translator. He is currently working in close collaboration with Vladimir Sorokin to ...

Yoshitaka Lawrence Shimoji is a sociologist who received his doctorate from Hitotsubashi University. He is the author of Konketsu to Nihonjin: Hāfu, daburu, mikkusu no shakaishi [Mixed Blood and ...