Criticism

10 Ways Ms., Sassy, and Jezebel Changed Your Life!

How contradiction drove fifty years of feminist media
Maggie Doherty

Service or Servitude?

The Bear and The Menu give us very different views of capitalism
Daniel W. Drezner

Ordinary Allurements

Christina Sharpe’s reading lessons
Elleza Kelley

The Consolations of Failure

Two new books look at what failing can—and cannot—teach us
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

The Choice Plot

Why are so many new novels obsessed with whether–and how–to have children?
Sanjena Sathian

How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer

Her boldly innovative translation of the Iliad is an epic for our time
Emily Greenwood

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Ideas

The All Play No Fun Economy

How did we end up teetering between euphoria and exhaustion?
Jessikah Díaz