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An image from Ingmar Bergman's Persona

My Year of Stalking Rachel

The quest to see without being seen
Becca Rothfeld
May 19, 2021
The activist Gloria Richardson walking past National Guardsmen during a civil rights march in Cambridge

Unbothered

The grace of black nonchalance
Namwali Serpell
December 1, 2020
black and white photo of low and heavy clouds

The Heavy Air

Capitalism and affronts to common sense
Anne Boyer
December 1, 2020
various sizes of metallic squares with gold borders

Wildness

Feminism, identity, and the willingness to be defeated
Maria Tumarkin
December 1, 2020
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Bengali Baboo

Deborah Baker
July 1, 2018
Louie Bellson lighting Pearl Bailey's cigarette

Cultural Differences

How fictional portrayals of intermarriage haven't quite caught up
Jennifer Acker
April 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Music in the Second Person

Listening to Opus 110
Mark Mazullo
April 1, 2019

The Wondrous Banality of Democracy

Counting the votes in one Pennsylvania county during the 2020 presidential election
John Fabian Witt
November 13, 2020
Flemish painting of people paying taxes

Deep Politics, Shallow Politics

Feisal G. Mohamed
May 10, 2018
A photograph of Ann Petry.

Nothing New Under the Sun

Ann Petry’s The Street and The Narrows
Emily Bernard
April 1, 2019