In the October issue, the journalist Belén Fernández, who has visited the Darién several times between 2023 and 2026, documents the whipsawing transformations that those villagers have experienced ...

The Algerian writer Kamel Daoud’s early years as a journalist were particularly notable for his coverage of the country’s civil war—the so-called black decade that began in the early Nineties. He ...

In August 2013, before a live studio audience in London, the Dutch vascular physiologist Mark Post unveiled the first-ever burger made from animal cells that had been cultivated in a lab. Post’s ...

Ten long years ago, an act of Congress established the United States Semiquincentennial Commission, a bipartisan group in charge of overseeing the nation’s two-hundred-fiftieth-birthday celebrations.

It is a matter of necessity or a choice freely made; a burdensome condition or a vintage-Polaroid fantasy: to live in a van. During the pandemic, the writer Kristin Dombek was one of many people who ...

How has the experience of siblinghood been transposed into literature? In three famous examples, through the dramatic surrender of one’s life (Antigone), through species transformation (The ...

Much of the conversation regarding AI to date has concerned its potential for unleashing cosmic dangers or its nebulous promises of global salvation. In practice, however, plenty of the young people ...

Nell Freudenberger’s fiction has spanned settings as far-ranging as Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, French Polynesia, and New York City. Across these landscapes and throughout her four novels ...

Brontez Purnell is nothing if not prolific. The author of seven books, most recently Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse, he’s also a musician, filmmaker, dancer, and choreographer. Purnell ...

Of all the niche communities birthed by the modern internet, “gooners” might be the most alien, and to many, the most repellent. Gooning, writes Daniel Kolitz in the November issue, is “a new kind of ...

In May 2019, the German Bundestag passed a resolution declaring the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement anti-Semitic. According to the text, the movement’s call to withhold economic support ...