TIME

Read Danté Stewart’s latest opinion piece with TIME Magazine: Progress is not a given. It is won.

NYT

Read Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s op-ed on the resiliency of butterflies in the face of adapting to dramatic changes in climate, food availability and urban development.

Vanity Fair

Stephanie Burt on Taylor Swift, relatability, and her course at a college famous for being famous.

Harpers Bazaar

Airea D. Mathews on play: “Barbie reminds me of the imaginative intensity that children take on to push past time and space.”

G&L Review

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan on writing black, queer fiction: “‘So, your mother is a Black feminist? No wonder your writing is so queer!’”

New York Times

Read Beth Ann Fennelly’s essay, “I Love My Students, but I Won’t Use a Gun to Protect Them” here.

bon appétit

Torrey Peters on the end of her marriage: “I thought I could save my marriage by repressing my transness. I couldn’t.”

Elle

Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo takes Elle’s literary survey.

Town & Country

In his latest piece, esteemed New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik interrogates the politics of excellence through music and art.