Flash Fiction: But you're a lesbian, aren't you? You become the person in his head.

I’ve always been given the benefit of the doubt.

Enjoy Sri Lankan food and hear four great authors discuss one big question: What happens in the aftermath of a three-decade long war?

The founder of The Climate Mobilization talks with Bridget Read about how psychology—not science—may be the key to ending America’s climate denial.

The author and comedian remembers attending the 1963 March on Washington, and feeling a movement converge.

A video artist draws on news footage, historical videos, Fela Kuti, Slavoj Žižek, Lewis Carroll, and others to reflect on Tahrir Square two years after #Jan25.

In Guatanamo: If the Light Goes Out, a photographer explores life in, around, and after detainment.

Emily Dickinson’s house in Amherst is missing something.

Following the third anniversary of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, Alexia Nader speaks with Wilentz about her new book, and the culture and future of Haiti.

Why climate change won't wait for the president.

In an adapted vignette from the author's new book, Standing Still in a Concrete Jungle, a surreal afternoon at a Wall Street lunch spot.

The demanding gifts of 2012.

Inside the community of Damanhur, where devotees safeguard connections to the stars, study alchemy, and prepare to rebuild human civilization.

Russia doesn’t get extinguished. No, Russia is the one that extinguishes. Russia is the prophecy. It had certainly ended my world, several times over.

Flash Fiction: “Look for the swollen ones,” his mother said. “They said he drowned.”

The founders of Ecosocialist Horizons discuss climate change, the collapse of capitalism, and building a new world in the shell of the old.

In her last book, one of the country’s great thinkers lost her edge. Why the decline evidenced in Dark Age Ahead is about more than just Jacobs’s age.

Flash Fiction: And despite her outward nonchalance, after Wyatt was born, when all she had at stake multiplied exponentially, she had come to see that terrible things – the witches and boogey men and homicidal maniacs of her anxiety-damp childhood – could, and did, happen during the day.

(re:)FORM Art founder Anna Harrah talks with us about collaboration, apocalypse, and self-fulfilling prophesies.

Flash Fiction: Sweet body, forgive me. I bore you so many petty hatreds—Ugly, I said. Dirty and weak. And yet, here is death, making such brief beauty of you.

From snowpocalypse to foie-mageddon, what’s behind our new obsession with end-times word endings?"

We don’t have to imagine what a nation cleansed of guns would look like—plenty of other countries can show us. One writer recalls her year in gun-less South Korea.

On the idea of End Times: clearing up that Mayan apocalypse business, remembering some failed armageddons throughout history, and visiting with folks who are still waiting patiently.

How U.S. taxpayers are paying the Pentagon to occupy the planet.

Ki-Suck Han's death on a New York City subway track has the city asking what would I do? One writer examines death in public, how the MTA handles trauma, and what it feels like to be an onlooker.

This fear-mongering won't help anything. It's time to jump.

The award-winning author on why he loves to write fiction and talk politics, and how nationalism fuels climate change.

Concerns over declining 'civility' in politics distract us from the meaningful disagreements that we need to have.

The info-sharing of early arcade game enthusiasts mimicked the scientific method. Now, video games and collective intelligence could change the way we approach science, shared problems, and school.

Hurricane Sandy rides in.

In the wake of the election of Barack Obama, a writer explores black American identity and the ritual of return in Ghana.

In the aftermath of Sandy, it's time to reevaluate what it means to be dependent on government.

Dear progressives: You may think there's not a huge difference between Obama and Romney. But there is, and you should still vote.

The new graphic novel Building Stories plays with time, form, and the physicality of the book.

In last night's debate, Obama made his dominance clear.

Artist Anita Glesta’s Gernika/Guernica: Desde el Cielo Hasta el Fondo (from the Heavens to the Core).

The proprietor of Mexico City’s first American-style bar reflects on how history and politics have changed the ways the city indulges, and what this means for his neighborhood.

The Cuban Missile Crisis and ownership of the world.

The discrediting of U.S. military power.

Bulgakov's masterpiece remains a reminder that you can't fight fire with fire.

A letter to my dismal allies.

Forget Mitt Romney, can the president make it to November 7?

This Thursday, brave the beautiful autumn weather to hear the poets featured in the 25th edition of The Best American Poetry read their work.

Doug Saunders's new book fights fears about “the Islamization of America” with historical and sociological fact, but slippery terminology gets in the way.

Artist Chad Wys gives us a peek into the music he listens to while he works.

As negotiations between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union continue, one teacher tells her school's strike story in pictures.

Our editors highlight some worthy books to start off the fall.

In Berlin, the photographer’s fascination with separation and unity has unexpected resonance.