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 ...

Camus opens the book with Meursault’s life, but François Ozon opens the new film adaptation with Meursault’s specific moment ...

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

I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long ...

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

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?

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, ...

Avi Shlaim, historian and influential scholar of Israel’s relationship with the Arab world, joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri ...