What kind of art should creatives make in charged or dangerous times? In 2013, my mental health suffered, and I had to see a professional. I told the therapist that I could no longer write the same ...

July 3, 2025 3 minutes When Therapy Fails Artists As a challenge to conventional advice about rest and recovery, poet Nada Faris explains the importance of working amid suffering for those who derive ...

In October of 2024, conservative pundit Ben Shapiro offered an interesting observation about the American presidential election of 2000. In the final days of the campaign, the big bombshell had been ...

The Children’s Commissioner for England recently released a report on the July, 2024 riots that followed the horrific murders of three young girls at a dance class in Southport. The riots, which ...

In listing the “non-literary” analogs for form in certain kinds of contemporary poetry, Jonathan Holden identifies a way in which contemporary writers recover lyric, while pushing it in newer ...

EssayLegacy Jan 17, 2025 7 minutes How Close Are We to Escaping Dying? The Current State of Cryonics By Natasha Vita-More ...

Contributing editor Jonathan Church reflects on the most important essays the magazine published in 2024.

“Capitalism has done much to develop the economic machinery of the modern world to the point where all of this is possible. But it is long since time to move past the capitalist phase of our history ...

“As witness of this exaltation of the gaudy, the poet reclaims kitsch as a redemptive force, a vital stream of art, when it is mindfully connected to a set of local traditions, the heritage of a group ...

“What stands out in Nakanishi is that she possesses an acute awareness of the root poetic traditions of her native islands and brings them forward with respect while also being influenced, as she ...

“Perhaps it is because of my own bias toward [Darryl Cooper as a friend, but the responsibility for such imprecise talk is something I place on [Tucker] Carlson, not on his interview subject.” ...

WP_Legacy_op-ed Aug 26, 2024 4 minutes Where an Anti-Aging Theory Goes Right (and Wrong) By Natasha Vita-More ...