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

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

Informed by Indigenous Andean knowledge, Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution broke legal ground by enshrining “Rights of Nature,” allowing anyone to litigate on behalf of damaged ecosystems. 1 In 2018, the ...

Camus opens the book with Meursault’s life, but François Ozon opens the new film adaptation with Meursault’s specific moment ...

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Avi Shlaim, historian and influential scholar of Israel’s relationship with the Arab world, joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri ...

All factories are alike; each unhappy worker is unhappy in their own way. For the British-born, Ireland-resident author ...

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.

In the first months of 2025, I hit a writing block. A PhD student, I was drafting my dissertation and trying to finish my program. And I was doing both in the shadow of higher education’s disorienting ...