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The Enduring Poison of Whiteness in ‘The Vanishing Half’

A review of Brit Bennett's newest novel.

'Mrs. America' shows that women and their motivations for power are not monolithic.

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Sufjan Stevens has exceeded my hopes and expectations.

A conversation with Anne Helen Petersen

But the majority believe that Holocaust education should be mandatory in schools.

A poem.

A review of One Coin Found: How God’s Love Stretches to the Margins, by Emmy Kegler.

A review of Gun Island, by Amitav Ghosh.

A review of A Fortune for Your Disaster, by Hanif Abdurraqib.

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

“Crime shows are propaganda for the police, telling the American psyche that we need cops to maintain order.”

How the coronavirus pandemic could bring more democracy to U.S. theater.