Danielewski, it seems, is not acting as a writer here, but as a hoarder of phrases, the more redolent of a vanished “Western” ...

Firms like Philip Morris hold rights that exceed those of most humans. Estates speak for the dead. Trusts speak for the ...

Informed by Indigenous Andean knowledge, Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution broke legal ground by enshrining “Rights of Nature,” allowing anyone to litigate on behalf of damaged ecosystems. 1 In 2018, the ...

Camus opens the book with Meursault’s life, but François Ozon opens the new film adaptation with Meursault’s specific moment ...

"If we want to resist the enshittified paradigms around us, we can’t just shake a fist at the sky: We have to show them a ...

Max Lawton is a writer, musician, and translator. He is currently working in close collaboration with Vladimir Sorokin to ...

All factories are alike; each unhappy worker is unhappy in their own way. For the British-born, Ireland-resident author ...

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.

In my New Jersey hometown, herons and kingfishers inhabit the wetlands of a Superfund site irremediably contaminated by chemical dyes and pesticides released by my father’s employer for decades. Even ...

The proliferating forms and functions of artificial intelligence have loosened many lips. Across the theoretical and the political spectrum, initial reactions ranged from despair to anticipatory ...