Typecast as a Terrorist
The Night Of and Rogue One star Riz Ahmed describes what life, work, and passing through airports is like as a British Pakistani.
The Man Who Sleeps in Hitler’s Bed
“It’s so hard to know what to do with all the stuff. I really do feel like I’m just a caretaker until the next person comes along, but I must display it, I must get it out into the public — I understand that.” Kevin Wheatcroft, a man in Leicestershire, England, has amassed the world’s largest collection of Nazi memorabilia.
Paul Auster: ‘I’m Going to Speak Out as Often as I Can, Otherwise I Can’t Live with Myself’
The publication of 4321, Paul Auster’s new 900-page novel, coincides with the author’s seventieth birthday. In an interview at the Guardian, he talks about escaping death as a child, writing a story about the what-ifs that haunt us, and learning how to live his life in the years ahead under a Trump presidency.
What Beyoncé Taught Me
Novelist Zadie Smith reflects on the connection between writing and dancing, drawing on iconic performers like Fred Astaire, Michael Jackson, and Beyoncé.
Dangerous Idiots: How the Liberal Media Elite Failed Working-Class Americans
Trump supporters are not the caricatures journalists depict –- and native Kansan Sarah Smarsh sets out to correct what newsrooms get wrong.
‘We Are Building Our Way To Hell’: Tales Of Gentrification Around The World
Dispatches from Portland, Chicago, Paris, London, Montreal, Berlin, Lisbon and other cities around the world where rampant gentrification appears to be displacing whole communities and cultures and creating playgrounds for the rich.
We Need To Talk About Cultural Appropriation: Why Lionel Shriver’s Speech Touched A Nerve
Convery gets help from a variety of interviewed authors in addressing author Lionel Shriver’s controversial keynote speech at the Brisbane Writers’ Festival—during which Shriver dismissed complaints about cultural appropriation by white writers, while wearing a sombrero.
Sex on Campus Isn’t What You Think: What 101 Student Journals Taught Me
Not every college student might be having casual sex, but the cultural forces that encourage casual encounters over other types, called hookup culture, is alive and well. Students at two schools kept journals about their sex lives to help one researcher understand how hookup culture, finances, looks, gender normativity, privilege and “sexually hot, emotionally cold” encounters affect them.
The Race to Save a Dying Language
In 2013, a retired schoolteacher named Linda Lambrecht presented Hawaiian Sign Language to a group of linguists. Now the language’s impending disappearance due to lack of users is putting enormous stress on a community who depend on it for survival.
‘Hope is an embrace of the unknown’
In a year in which one calamity seems to follow another on a daily basis, Rebecca Solnit re-examines the meaning of hope in dark times.