Random House 343 pp. $5.95. Truman Capote’s meticulous story of a quadruple murder on the Kansas plain, its instant success, and some of the critical reactions to it raise a number of ...
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Spring 2024

Wars of position that pit race against class are tired.
Five poems by the late American writer and activist Grace Paley.
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An event with the German Left Party’s parliamentary co-leader.
Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here. You can subscribe to, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts and ...
An influx of gifted, charismatic, politically active stars have willed the WNBA into a genuine sporting attraction. Can they leverage the sport’s growing popularity into a better deal for players?
So long as Cubans’ rage and despair remain, the government cannot afford to curtail emigration. And there is no end in sight. Andrés Pertierra ▪ Spring 2025 A boat of Cuban refugees arrives in ...
Hope has been restored for many Syrians. But vigilance will be needed to ensure that democratic institutions emerge and withstand autocratic impulses. Muhammad Idrees Ahmad ▪ Spring 2025 ...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021, 384 pp. “Get big or get out.” It’s a statement that lives in infamy in the history of American agriculture. Ascribed to Richard Nixon’s secretary of agriculture, Earl ...
The art campaign Wages for Facebook is an attempt to unsettle the digital marketization of our relationships that many of us have already come to accept as normal. THEY SAY IT’S FRIENDSHIP. WE SAY ...
The UAW’s reform movement brought membership back into the fold, harnessing their energy and forging it into a weapon that could force the companies to bend. Alex Press ▪ Fall 2024 United Auto ...