Art & Literature

What happens to critical thought in today’s market-driven academia?

From stray animals littering the revolutionary squares of Moscow to illegal migrants roaming the back alleyways of Beijing, today’s post-socialist cities are home to massive discrepancies in wealth and...

In partnership with Amherst College’s The Common literary magazine in anticipation of the upcoming Arabic Culture Series. One might ask: "What is this ‘new’ writing in the Arab World?" Is it a...

Within a culture dominated by visual media, the images we make and share of ourselves are inevitably influenced and complicated by the wider cultural vernacular.

A collaborative story-telling process documents one couples’ experiences with infertility and the amazing ways in which modern families are made.

It’s hard to decide what the highly acclaimed Russian political drama, Leviathan, does best: masterfully capture the key facets of Russian life under Putin or convey the universal hopelessness in any...

A counterpart to the nonfiction stories and blogs that have flooded the web, literary representations of adoption raise important questions in the broader conversation about social identity and...