March 24, 2025

Recovery Without End

Insights From a Medieval Mystic?

Hannah Lucas

Hannah Lucas explores the mystical experiences of Julian of Norwich during her illness in the 14th century and challenges modern wellness culture.

March 17, 2025

On Motherhood and the Literary Life

Emily Hodgson Anderson

Emily Hodgson Anderson explores the complex relationship between motherhood and writing, using Doris Lessing’s experiences as a focal point.

March 10, 2025

Illuminating The Running Flame

Fang Fang in Conversation with Michael Berry

More than twenty years after its initial publication in Chinese, The Running Flame is finally available in English translation. As the novel reaches a new group of readers, translator Michael Berry revisits the origins of the story with author Fang Fang, who in this interview, reflects on her work and the place of women in contemporary China.

March 3, 2025

Seven Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month 2025

Each March, we come together to honor and recognize the legacy of women in history, society, and culture and to reflect on the ongoing fight for gender equality. This year’s theme for Women’s History Month, “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating...

February 25, 2025

Nicole M. Brown in Conversation with Daniel Davis About We Are Each Other’s Business

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Welfare Rights Movement organized at both local and national levels, advocating for poor people’s inclusion, dignity, and autonomy. In We Are Each Other’s Business: Black Women’s Intersectional Political Consumerism During the Chicago Welfare Rights...

February 25, 2025

Why Yogic Perception Matters

Jed Forman

Jed Forman explores the concept of yogic perception, emphasizing its relevance to contemporary global challenges. He argues that understanding yogic perception can disrupt entrenched assumptions about consciousness and reality, fostering mutual intelligibility and social equity.

February 18, 2025

Csaba Szabo in Conversation with Robyn Massey About Unreliable

All too often, issues encountered in today’s scientific publication process can profoundly shape research integrity. Reproducibility—the ability to replicate experimental findings—is essential to scientific methodology. Yet an alarming proportion of biomedical research papers struggle with independent verification. In Unreliable: Bias,...

February 15, 2025

The Life and Deaths of Illicit Gold in South Africa:

A Global Story

Rosalind C. Morris

Informal miners in South Africa sometimes explain an underground accident by saying that a witch has thrown death in the hole. Death emerged in mid-January, in the partially decomposed bodies of 78 informal miners brought to the surface in the...

February 13, 2025

Rob Lalka on How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power

Rob Lalka’s new book, The Venture Alchemists: How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power, reexamines the familiar stories of America’s most famous entrepreneurs, uncovering the profound societal impacts of their decisions—and the unseen trade-offs that shape our world. Today, the...

February 8, 2025

10 Must-Read Books for Black History Month 2025

Understanding the impact of Black labor is key to understanding Black history and culture, as well as its influence on the United States. This year’s Black History Month theme—African Americans and Labor, free, unfree, vocational, and voluntary—explores how work has...

February 1, 2025

A Hypothetic Interview: When the Artist Considers Himself

James B. Haile III

The Dark Delight of Being Strange is an experimental work combining the elements of Black speculative fiction, Afro-surrealism, Black philosophy, and Black studies to think through the meaning and implications of Black freedom. Dark Delight invites us to imagine and...

January 31, 2025

John Wiens on Becoming an Ecologist

Initially, Becoming an Ecologist: Career Pathways in Science was meant to be a memoir that mapped my career journey, tracking the changes in study topics, locations, and even disciplines through the years. I thought a record of my path—what I...