At the time of writing, the current population of New York City is 8.468 million […]
Ancestor Trouble, by Maud Newton
Maud Newton, the author of Ancestor Trouble, is the product of two people who decided […]
Republic of Lies, by Anna Merlan
My dive into podcasts about conspiracy thinking—notably QAnon Anonymous and Knowledge Fight—have brought the astute […]
This is Going to Hurt, by Adam Kay
During the early 2000s, Adam Kay studied and worked as a doctor in the UK, […]
In the Pines, by Grace Elizabeth Hale
Trigger warnings for racialized violence, brief descriptions of torture, and lynching. Historian Grace Elizabeth Hale […]
Russia, by Antony Beevor
Trigger warnings for descriptions of torture and frequent mentions of rape. In the coda of […]
Judgment at Tokyo, by Gary J. Bass
What do we do when the war is over? The treaties and surrenders have been […]
And the Band Played On, by Randy Shilts
I was born in 1981. That year some of the earliest cases of what would […]
Strangers to Ourselves, by Rachel Aviv
In Strangers to Ourselves, Rachel Aviv presents a series of portraits of mental illness, portraits […]
Girls and Their Monsters, by Audrey Clare Farley
Trigger warnings for physical, verbal, and sexual abuse of children. On May 19, 1930, Carl […]