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Black and white portrait of Machado de Assis
Books

Machado de Assis’s Afterlives

The Brazilian novelist’s overlooked politics
Ratik Asokan
June 28, 2021
Graphic with alternating black and purple, and hands opening to a white space
The Moment

Strangers in Our Own Homes

The pandemic’s xenophobic discourse
Divya Victor
September 20, 2021
Todd Gitlin speaks with with I.F. Stone at a demonstration against nuclear weapons, Washington D.C., 1962.
Essays

In Pursuit of Clancy Sigal

A writer’s radical life
Todd Gitlin
September 20, 2021
View from a train passing through the Republic of Buryatia, Russia.
From the Archives

From “Siberia” to Siberia

Why Russia is not like Europe's "little countries"
Vivian Gornick
December 1, 2021
Essays

My Painting of Kyiv

Will the birthplace I love still exist for my daughter?
Maria Kuznetsova
March 12, 2022
Essays

The Abortion Stories We Tell

Do we need to be more radically honest?
Maggie Doherty
June 24, 2022
Essays

James Baldwin in Turkey

How Istanbul changed his career—and his life
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
June 12, 2023
Essays

A. Philip Randolph

Bayard Rustin
April 1, 1987
Essays

The Night Watch

I first sought sanctuary during the Troubles. I'm still looking for it.
Darran Anderson
December 11, 2023
Essays

Revisiting Dag Hammarskjöld’s Mysterious Death

One man is known to have survived the infamous crash. Why was his testimony hidden?
Susan Williams
December 11, 2023