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Tracy Flick for Principal
Tom Perrotta's '90s antihero returns.
Chasing Joan Didion
I visited the writer's California homes, from Berkeley to Malibu. What was looking for?
Fernanda Melchor Writes Tragic Machismo
In her novels, male fear and desire are two sides of the same coin.
Still Yawning at the Apocalypse
Why is the world ignoring the latest U.N. climate report?
Things Change
Harvey Fierstein's I Was Better Last Night is part memoir and part firsthand account of modern gay history
More Cracks in the Glass Ceiling?
A new Harvard Business School analysis nds progress is being made toward workplace gender equity but it’s still slow going
There's No Such Thing as “the Latino Vote”
Why can't America see that?
Chuck Klosterman Lived Through This
In his new book, he tries to write about the ’90s as it felt at the time— at least to people like him.
Bruce Boxleitner
"James Arness made all the difference in his storied film and television career."
Rocky Mountain Bonanzas
Explore mining history from Cripple Creek to Grand Encampment.
My Top Ten Favorite Movie Moments
True West’s Firearms Editor applauds authenticity.
Cultural Traditions to Celebrate
Each year, UNESCO compiles traditions, knowledge, skills and art from communities across the globe, in a list of “Intangible Cultural Heritage.” The chosen items are not historical monuments or artifacts, but rather “living expressions inherited from our ancestors.” In a time of rapid globalization, the list serves to recognize and celebrate cultural diversity and highlights how traditional ways of life interact with the contemporary world. From the navigation skills of Micronesian wayfarers to a thousand-year pottery tradition carried by women in northern Peru, here’s a snapshot of this year’s list.
What Roots Means to Me
Alex Haley’s landmark book began in Reader’s Digest, where he worked as a senior editor. The repercussions are still being felt today.
Passion and Love for Community
Dr. Prakash Tyagi is the executive director of Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti (GRAVIS), an NGO dedicated to working in impoverished rural regions of India, including the Thar desert, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Bundelkhand. In part 2 of this interview with Kashish Kalwani, he speaks about how things have changed due to the pandemic and the importance of passion and love for community.
Our 21 Favorite Books of 2021
Luckily, 2021 provided a plethora of intriguing options to pique any interest from thrillers on this planet and in space to a Dustbowl family saga,
Joan Didion's Greatest Two-Word Sentence
The power of an ice-cold, unflinching gaze.
Sean Thor Conroe – The Protégé
Sean Thor Conroe lost his fiercest advocate right before he published his first novel. Now he’s facing the hype without him.
Mixed Media Vanishing Point
More than two centuries ago, a group of West Africans chose death over enslavement in the waters of coastal Georgia. Why do so few traces of their story remain there today?
Food For Thought: Stirring The Pot
The forgotten Chinese chef who transformed the way America cooks
Drinking Problem: Well Wishes
How thirsty cash crops could uproot vulnerable Californians
Dangerous Prophecies
The assumption that civil war is inevitable in America is inflammatory and corrosive.
John Milton's Hell
Cast into political exile, and into darkness by his failing eyesight, the poet was determined to accomplish “things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.”
Stephen Sondheim – A Giant in the Sky
The measureless, omnipresent influence of Stephen Sondheim.
God Save The Queen
It will be a mess when she’s gone
The End Of Trust
Suspicion is undermining the American economy.
How Self-Reliant Was Emerson?
Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, emerged from an exceptionally tight-knit community.
Peter Gelb – The Divo
All of Peter Gelb’s big problems running the Metropolitan Opera only got bigger during the pandemic.
Life After Nirvana
Dave Grohl is being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for a second time. He’s got a lot to reflect on.
It Didn't Have to Be This Way
A brilliant account of 30,000 years of change upends the bedrock assumptions about human history.
The Men Who Are Killing American's Newspapers
Inside Alden Global Capital, the secretive hedge fund gutting newsrooms and damaging democracy