An attendee at a People’s Town Hall holds a placard before Sen. Elissa Slotkin & Rep. Kristen McDonald Rive (not pictured) ...

But by the spring of 2011, he had a feeling that there was a new underappreciated risk: the debt of the federal government ...

Does ending a war depend on rethinking how it began? Head-snappingly fast after the United States initiated direct talks with ...

Yuko Tsushima’s Territory of Light (1979) was published in English in 2019, in a superb translation by the late Geraldine Harcourt. Although Harcourt had translated other Tsushima books decades ...

I did not want my mother. There had been no plans made to have her, no balloons to call attention to the occasion. She was already here before me, fully formed, and on her own, talking in full ...

From New Story of the Stone, which was published in June by Columbia University Press. The book, published in Chinese beginning in 1905, is considered one of China’s first works of science fiction. It ...

From “Who Needs the Democrats?,” which appeared in the July 1970 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 175-year ...

From the Early Spring 2025 special fiction issue of Raritan, a quarterly journal published by Rutgers University that ceased operations this year. Unlike the windows of my childhood that looked out ...

The only thing everyone can agree on about why Donald Trump does what he does is that his reasons are not obvious. There are innumerable proposals on offer for an intellectual framework that ...

Photographs by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, from her book Writing in the Sand, which was published in February by Dewi Lewis Publishing. Courtesy the artist and Dewi Lewis Publishing ...

From The Mirror of Simple Souls, which was published in May by Winter Editions. The freedom of love it astounds me When we walk by the furniture stores With their waterbeds as big as houses On the ...