November 29, 2023 • Institute Update On October 23, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) announced the creation of a new Division of Data Science and Technology (DST). DST will replace... Read more »
Being serious demands serious kinds of work. In Styles of Seriousness, Steven Connor reflects on the surprisingly various ways in which a sense of the serious is made and maintained, revealing that... Read more »
The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on terror. Some two decades later, this... Read more »
This is the latest installment of Public Streets, an urban observation series created by Ellis Avery and curated by Abigail Struhl. After the pandemic struck Mexico City in early March, the frantic rhythm of urban life... Read more »
At Public Books, our editorial staff and contributors are hard at work to provide readers with thought-provoking articles. But when the workday is done, what is actually on our nightstands? Here we... Read more »
The citizens of Puerto Rico, reeling from the devastation of Hurricane Fiona, in 2022, see something new under the sun: solar power, although not in the conventional sense of solar markets. Puerto... Read more »
“You need your heroes to have flaws.” Hosted by: Rebecca Ballard Locus- and Nebula- award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark joins critic andré carrington (UC Riverside) and host Rebecca Ballard for a conversation... Read more »
In the wake of the 2015 Rachael Dolezal and 2020 Jessica Krug race scandals, in which these two white women deceitfully posed as Black women to advance their careers, “Who’s Black and... Read more »
She has been hailed as the literary queen of the Paris techno scene, whose cult novel Superstars immortalised the hedonism and rivalry of the sweat-drenched dancefloors and rave parties of 1990s France.... Read more »