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Classical musicians on stage, with a chile and a woman holding scripts facing each other at the front of the stage

The Arts

A Transdisciplinary Foray Into Classical Performance

December 18, 2025Grace Dignazio

Book cover featuring blue and white plate holding small dark square objects against a black backdrop

technology

Erotic Pleasure and Technological Mastery

December 17, 2025Benjamin Mangrum

A cut-and-glued transparent plastic model from 1943 shows two perpendicular spherical discs (a representation of the equator) and a meridian disc of a sphere.

Politics

Finding the Equator

December 17, 2025Mariana Giacobbe Goldberg, Suzy Hansen

The Arts

First as Comedy, Then as Farce

December 16, 2025Benjamin Mangrum, Rayna Salam

Black and white kitten stares at a photo of itself on a computer screen

The Internet

Joanna Walsh’s E-Elegy

December 10, 2025Eva Szilardi-Tierney

A black-and-white photograph of a young girl sitting on a wicker chair. The young girl is wearing a dark color, loose fitting dress with a light color neckline. She reads from a piece of paper in her left hand. The photograph has a brown mat frame and backing.

Literature

Against Storytelling

December 9, 2025Miriam Rasch

The Arts

Paolo Sorrentino on his new movie, La Grazia

December 8, 2025Mitchell Abidor, Paolo Sorrentino

Entrance to Yugoslavian Museum in Belgrade

Politics

The Words We Learn to Fear

December 4, 2025Maria B. Olujic

Two rescue workers direct a firehose at the ruins of the World Trade Center following the 9/11 terrorist attacks

War

Honest Truths From Wrongful Deaths

December 3, 2025Jeremy Varon

Two Sudanese people in wearing long robes and headscarves walk through dry grove of trees littered with refuse. The figure on the left looks over her shoulder with a worried expression.

War

Attacks on Women’s Bodies Reveal the Logic of Genocide in Sudan

December 2, 2025Ayotunde Giwa

Black and white photograph of men in twentieth-century white sporting outfits standing in acrobatic formation

Interviews

Fascism’s Body Politics

November 25, 2025Dagmar Herzog, Adam Koehler Brown

A large crowd of soccer fans fills a stadium section, waving yellow and blue flags and banners with the Mexican Club América emblem in celebration.

Sports

Eight Months to Learn Spanish

November 25, 2025Sean Jacobs, Ivan Pech Luna