What if she found out that that she’d raised the kind of girl who “necked and petted and flew to New York,” whose “pants were wet with the sticky white filth of desire”? “She’s not my daughter,” Plath ...

One of the most commonly encountered claims about international politics today concerns the transition from a “Westphalian” to a “post-Westphalian” era. Writers across a wide range of media and ...

Gay critic Leo Bersani, who died in February, was known for his sharp opening sentences. In a career spanning eighteen books and numerous essays, the Berkeley professor, who passed away in February at ...

Sometime late in the 1960s, in the countryside of Vermont, my sister and I saw in the evening sky three round lights, apparently far-off, perfectly still and unchanging, each the size of a thumbnail ...

Listen to a reading of this essay, courtesy of curio.io: On the afternoon of April 4, 1968, James Baldwin was relaxing by the pool with actor Billy Dee Williams in a rented house in Palm Springs.

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“Forget the social workers. Forget the shrinks. Forget the ACLU. That’s the way it really is.” —Joe Arpaio I was interviewing Joe Arpaio in 1995 for a book I had planned to write on chain gangs. I ...

Susan Neiman is a moral and political philosopher and Director Emeritus of the Einstein Forum in Germany. Her latest book is Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era.

The years from the late 1960s through the middle of the 1970s were remarkable ones for American movies. In the words of critic David Thompson, it was “the decade when movies mattered.” With the ...

Yael Tamir, author of Liberal Nationalism, is a former member of the Knesset and was Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University from 1989-1999.

Rosie Gillies is director of audience and development at Floodlight. She was formerly engagement editor, and later digital director, at Boston Review.

When Helen Vendler’s and Marjorie Perloff’s names appear in the same sentence, they are often being held up as polar opposites: the academy’s two “grandes dames” of poetics scholarship whose ...