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Illustration by Javier Jaén The Kleptocrats Next Door
The United States has a dirty-money problem.
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John R. Hamilton / Trunk Archive The Impossible Politics of Johnny Cash
He was beloved by Americans who could agree on little else. Was he too eager to please?
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Illustration by Oliver Munday. Sources: Miljan Živković / … The Martial Art I Can’t Live Without
Brazilian jiu-jitsu has been compared to chess, philosophy, even psychoanalysis. But its real appeal is on the mat.
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Vedran Štimac Emerson Didn’t Practice the Self-Reliance He Preached
How Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, caught on in tight-knit Concord, Massachusetts
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Dani Choi Animals of the Future
Lizards’ feet are morphing, squid are shrinking, rats’ teeth are getting shorter. What’s in store for us?
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Illustration by Gabriela Pesqueira. Source: Universal History Archive … Why Did Dostoyevsky Write Crime and Punishment?
He had no choice.
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Illustration by Rodrigo Corral. Sources: Hugh Sitton / … Human History Gets a Rewrite
A brilliant new account upends bedrock assumptions about 30,000 years of change.
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Kelsey Dake Spotify Has Made All Music Into Background Music
Is the collapse of genre boundaries and the erosion of fervent musical loyalties a good thing?
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Illustration by Marisa Maestre. Sources: Jillian Edelstein / … W. G. Sebald Ransacked Jewish Lives for His Fictions
Why did he lie about his sources?
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Illustration by Paul Spella; source images: Roman Nerud … Jonathan Franzen’s Best Book Yet
At last he’s put aside the pyrotechnics and gone all in on his great theme: the American family.
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Illustration by Alex Merto; source: John Lamparski / … Peter Thiel Hates a Copycat
The billionaire’s extreme contrarianism is the secret to his success.
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Matt Williams What Is Crime in a Country Built on It?
How Colson Whitehead subverts genre conventions in his new book
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Illustration by Vartika Sharma; Source: Alberto Rizzo / … The Problem With Being Cool About Sex
Half a century after the sexual revolution, a new generation of feminists understands that we still haven’t reconciled what we should want with what we do want.
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Laura Peretti Sally Rooney Addresses Her Critics
The Irish writer has been accused of being overly sentimental and insufficiently political. In her new novel, she makes the case for her approach to fiction.
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Chris Jones The Would-Be Savior of Patagonia
Are environmental crusaders like Douglas Tompkins good for the planet?
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Illustration by Katie Martin; image by Heritage Images … Joseph Campbell’s Woman Problem
In the writer’s classic study of world myths, women were in the background. A new book aims to change that.
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Illustration by Vahram Muradyan; images by Les Byerley … Robin DiAngelo and the Problem With Anti-racist Self-Help
What two new books reveal about the white progressive pursuit of racial virtue
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Illustration by Danny A Better Way to Look at Trees
What pioneering new research has revealed about the forest
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Illustration by Kensuke Koike; Bettmann / Getty Edgar Allan Poe’s Other Obsession
Known as a master of horror, he also understood the power—and the limits—of science.
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Illustration by Ayşe Klinge; Bettmann / Getty The Bleak Prescience of Richard Wright
A previously unpublished novel invites a reassessment of a writer criticized for his doctrinaire pessimism about race in America.
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