“Twenty-five years after his death, the painter who gave us ‘happy little trees’ is more ubiquitous than ever.”
Editor’s Pick
Inside the Supreme Court’s Historic Term
A four-part series behind the scenes of SCOTUS’s landmark decisions on LGBTQ rights, abortion, Trump’s taxes, and more. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
Black Talk, Black Feeling: Media Round Table
“So much of my work as a writer and editor is to make sure that Black people have the ability to write about more than just moments like the one we’re in right now, and a big disheartening thing for me has been to live through this moment and again see editors scrambling to get […]
How a Global Crisis Turns Into a Personal Crisis
“Moral injury can be triggered by committing, witnessing, or failing to prevent an act that violates one’s personal ethical code.” With journalists covering Covid-19 deaths and state violence against protestors around the clock, how do they avoid long-term impact?
Feeling Bullish: On My Great-Uncle, Gay Matador and Friend of Hemingway
“In his suit, with his pigtail and his montera, he was pure potential: he could be masculine vanquisher or gold-embroidered fairy. He was both, actually, at all times, and nobody who came to see him fight thought any less of him for it.”
Deeply, Deeply Diseased
The Trillbilly Worker’s Party podcast is anticapitalist with a sense of humor and a Southern twang—though your nana might want to wash their mouths out with soap.
I Ran Away To a Remote Scottish Isle. It Was Perfect
“Crowded out of the city by noise and stress, I embraced the wild solitude of a Hebridean island – and found a connection to nature.”
My Midlife Crisis as a Russian Sailor
“For a book project about 16th-century polar explorer William Barents, Andrea Pitzer needed to reach the remote Arctic island where he and his men came to grief. She booked passage on an expeditionary boat out of Murmansk, then headed north on a trip marked by unforgettable scenery, unexpected loss, and wild magic that changed her […]
The Poison of Male Incivility
On Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s powerful speech on the House floor, and the entrenched narrative of the “disruptive” woman.
