Sally Mann’s Dark Diary of the South
Sally Mann’s images counter a saccharine, naive notion of childhood and show how children’s lives can be fraught with violence, shame, confusion, and fear, as well...
The Bedouins of al-Khan al-Ahmar Halt the Bulldozers of Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reaffirmed his commitment to the ultimate destruction of al-Khan al-Ahmar. But already it can be said that a small group...
I Will Not Be an Invisible Trans Woman
I understand the betrayal of a flag that James Baldwin describes—this way that you can live in a country and have the profoundest sense that it...
The Concrete Jungle
Menno Schilthuizen is a Dutch biologist based at Leiden University, in a country whose population is more urban than rural. In other words, he inhabits the...
Communing with Mrs. Gaskell
It is a gift to allow someone to make public their half of a two-sided story. I have accepted it nonetheless—the book is now out in...
Abbott’s Absence
To the Editors: In her review of Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography, Regina Marler claims that Abbott does not appear in Man Ray’s autobiography, Self-Portrait...
Walter Who?
To the Editors: Please forgive the extreme delay of this letter in response to Nathaniel Rich’s review of Walter Kirn’s book about me. To the whole...
The Khashoggi Killing: America’s Part in a Saudi Horror
This brazen killing did not occur in isolation. If it was the “game-changer” that many see, it was also the latest, most extreme manifestation of a...
Bringing Poetry to the Cruel History of Comfort Women
On August 14, Korea and Taiwan unveiled two statues commemorating the 80,000 to 200,000 “comfort women,” primarily from Korea, but also from Taiwan, China, and Southeast...
Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets
The White Helmets’ financial backing is not the real reason why the pro-Assad camp is so bent on defaming them. Since 2015, the year the Russians...
