Come for the food carts. Stay while the police search for your car.
2017
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Unapologetic Women
The Consent of the (Un)governed
“Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Consent of the (Un)governed
“Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
The New Face of Military Recruitment
The Army is working to increase the number of enlistments, and eliminate unethical recruiting practices.Â
Posted inEditor's Pick
Border Wars
When writer and scholar Zandria F. Robinson tries to understand what makes “southernness” a distinct quality in music, food, language, or attitudes about race, she realizes that borders and categories are porous.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Joys and Sorrows of Watching My Own Birth
A personal essay in which Shelby Vittek reflects on the bittersweet experience of watching the video of herself being born — and her now-divorced mom and dad becoming parents — again and again.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Being a Teenage Girl is Hard
Nobody in their families can understand them, OK?
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Welcome to Parliament! Bachelors Can Only Wear Brown Shoes Every Other Tuesday
What changes politically if Parliament moves to a modern, inclusive space from one steeped in sexist, classist history?
Posted inArts & Culture
The Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Ethical Enjoyment of Museums
In his review for the New York Times, Holland Cotter writes that the museum fails in “truth-telling.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Louvre Abu Dhabi, an Arabic-Galactic Wonder, Revises Art History
The Louvre Abu Dhabi is a beautiful new building with a rented artwork and a borrowed name — the museum needs time to develop a collection of its own. But what will be the character of this new collection, the first of its kind in the Middle East? In his review, art critic Holland Cotter reflects on […]