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Michelle Robinson’s Passementerie Weavings Demonstrate Elaborate Detail and Design

Embellished Vodou Flags by Myrlande Constant Spotlight ‘The Spiritual World of Haiti’

Your Soul Is a Blue Marble: How to See with an Astronaut’s Eyes

The Marginalian

A Provocative Photography Exhibition Invites You to Experience ‘Chromotherapia’

Justice for the Rural Poor

New York Review of Books

Your Whole Self

New York Review of Books

What a real-life ‘trolley problem’ reveals about morality

In praise of subspecies

Jacob Zuma’s enduring relevance

Africa is a Country

Deniz Kurdak Crafts Fragility and Resilience in Embroidered Depictions of Porcelain

Through Ceramics, Stephanie Shih Considers the Disillusioning Price of Domestic Bliss

The Indoor Plumbing Test

Voices of Victorians

Heaven on Earth and Jesus Is Palestinian

Men’s anxiety about hair loss can have a deeper meaning

The end of neoliberalism?

Procès et tribulations de Rokia Traoré

Africa is a Country

The trials and tribulations of Rokia Traoré

Africa is a Country

Sympathy for the Troll

New York Review of Books

Darwin on How to Evolve Your Imagination

The Marginalian

Media Hype Set Up Tren de Aragua to Serve as Trump’s New Bogeyman

Israel: Life By the Sword

New York Review of Books

The Ungovernable Economy

New York Review of Books

How to Read Like Napoleon

VFYW: A Surprising Place For Surfers

For Elite Media, ‘Oligarch’ Is Just a Partisan Claim

Media Credit Trump for Gaza Truce—Sidelining Palestinian Resistance and Solidarity

After Liberal Cultural Hegemony

Flowers and Butterflies Stitch Messages of Hope into Crumpled Metal and Corroded Barrels

Undoing Biden's Left-Extremism

Last week, a trove of leaked documents offered a glimpse into the role that large technology companies have played in Israel’s...

London Review of Books

In Search of Logged Time

When we leave the work of remembering to digital tools, we risk the loss of our histories to technological obsolescence. The...

Hard Knock Life

Examining the mythology of the American orphan....

Baffler Magazine

How Trump’s Tariffs Put Canada on a Collision Course

The trick is balancing retaliation with economic survival The post How Trump’s Tariffs Put Canada on a Collision Course first appeared...

On a concert of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington....

Trump’s Trade Routes

While Trump’s schemes to impose tariffs on Chinese, Canadian, Mexican and European imports have been taken seriously enough to be refuted...

London Review of Books

The Symptoms of Capitalism

By Amber Butts Every day I’m resentful of capitalism. And when I say capitalism, I don’t mean the binary, often well-meaning...

Black Youth Project

Nazi Persecution Scattered My Family. A Lost Archive Brought Us Together

How 10,000 pages of documents sent me on a journey through Germany’s dark past The post Nazi Persecution Scattered My Family....

I Lost My Son to Addiction. No, Privilege Didn’t Protect Him

He had a loving family, financial support, and the best treatment. He fell victim to an overdose anyway The post I...

Weekly Quiz: Hard-Core Climate Talk, Weird Wellness Trends, and How Biden Blew It

How closely have you been reading our online stories this week? Take The Walrus Weekly Quiz to find out—released every Saturday....

On the first day of his second term as US president, Donald Trump described Gaza as a ‘phenomenal location on the...

London Review of Books

Part 6: Why Do We Travel? Because Nature is Everywhere

From Mexico to Miami to Montreal, wild flora and fauna break through concrete and reach for the sun, writes Caitlin Stall-Paquet....

I’m nothing till you say that you want me....

Baffler Magazine

The New Patron Saints of Lesbian Fiction

Why the best queer writers are throwing plot out of the window The post The New Patron Saints of Lesbian Fiction...

Breaking the Rules of Gay Fiction, One Riotous Page at a Time

Brontez Purnell’s work burns with a frantic blend of lyricism and lewdness, desire and disgust The post Breaking the Rules of...

The Costs of Having It All: On Netflix’s “Dubai Bling”

“Dubai Bling” reveals contemporary shifts in public discourse on feminism and the patriarchal family unit. The post The Costs of Having...

On Monday, 2 December 2024, London’s central YMCA – the world’s first – posted an ‘Important Update’ on Instagram. ‘After nearly...

London Review of Books