Firms like Philip Morris hold rights that exceed those of most humans. Estates speak for the dead. Trusts speak for the ...

"If we want to resist the enshittified paradigms around us, we can’t just shake a fist at the sky: We have to show them a ...

All factories are alike; each unhappy worker is unhappy in their own way. For the British-born, Ireland-resident author ...

Danielewski, it seems, is not acting as a writer here, but as a hoarder of phrases, the more redolent of a vanished “Western” ...

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.

What were the books of 2024 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 12th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black History, Literary Fiction, Borderlands, ...

Informed by Indigenous Andean knowledge, Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution broke legal ground by enshrining “Rights of Nature,” allowing anyone to litigate on behalf of damaged ecosystems. 1 In 2018, the ...

Given Meursault’s unreliable narration and narrative interiority, The Stranger proves challenging to adapt. While the first-person novella suggests Meursault’s attitudes and philosophies brand him the ...

Utilitarian public baths and pools once filled the world’s cities, but now new expensive spas are taking their place. Has even bathing become a luxury?

Hazem Almassry is Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Hazem is from Gaza. His research spans politics, culture and identity in the Middle ...

Over a quarter century after its publication, J. M. Coetzee’s 1999 Booker Prize–winning novel Disgrace continues to stir visceral responses from readers. It is Coetzee’s most widely read novel, both ...