Maher Tarabishi was the caregiver for his son Wael, whose condition deteriorated after his father’s arrest. ICE denied Tarabishi’s funeral request.

On Gisèle Pelicot, Virginie Despentes, and post-#MeToo narratives – Jamie Hood

What scares them is something else: the realization spreading across Los Angeles that the private housing market isn’t just failing wildfire victims—it’s failing by design. That the inability to meet ...

Isabella Hammad reckons with literature’s role in witnessing war and genocide, tracing how Sitt Marie-Rose speaks to the present crisis.

Federico Perelmuter considers László Krasznahorkai’s “Herscht 07769,” translated by Ottilie Mulzet.

Chaos isn’t a by-product; it’s the goal.

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Two Sumatran corpse flowers, Sydney’s Putricia and New York City’s Smelliot, bloomed on either side of the globe, luring in thousands of visitors as they released an odor variously described as redole...

As Sheehi recently argued, “It will be the university that enacts the violence of fascism. The fascist just sends off a letter.” To this story we can add the psychoanalyst, who also seems all too will...

With the Gaza ceasefire, Trump accomplished in a week what the Biden administration refused to do for fifteen months.

The widely-reported agreement must hold. We haven't begun to understand the full scope of the horrors Israel wrought. And Palestine is still not free.

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The jury is still out on Penny's guilt, but the verdict on Jordan Neely, as a threat to be eliminated, is in.