New Future

Sophie Lewis’s new book opens up possibilities for excitement about what feminism could be—if only we could sit with its past.

To incorporate AI into the production of art today—no matter how sparingly—is to endorse Silicon Valley’s politics and worldview.

Public education is meant to be a great equalizer. That’s why Trump wants to do undo it.

The class struggle in America today is anything but pure and simple.

Maurizio Serra’s biography of Curzio Malaparte does not set out to vindicate its subject.

How Yevgeny Prigozhin brought Wagner to Libya during a twenty-first century scramble for Africa.

What is it about that quiet beach, in this neighborhood with virtually no crime, that causes men to act this way?

Augusto Monterroso’s oeuvre is as stubbornly irreducible as the man himself.

Have you achieved that state of perfect being that requires no evasions? Have you the courage to do nothing at all?

Eric Adams may no longer face corruption charges, but he’s already lost in the court of public opinion.

The most dangerous way to politicize science is to claim that it is off-limits to debate, safeguarded in some way by truth and expertise.

Baalu Girma exposed the vulnerability of the Ethiopian military dictatorship while serving as its mouthpiece, his afterlife as complicated as that of Elvis.

We hear often about how rape can be used as a weapon of war—but less so about how it is taken up in service of empire.

Only in the flesh could I make sure the lie of my perfect life was convincing.