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McInerney’s big job now is acting as a custodian for the statue of himself that celebrity has

D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

These are the

Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

All of my status characteristics screamed “competent,” but nothing could shut down what my blackness screams when I walk into the room. I could use my status to serve others, but not myself.

Tressie McMillan Cottom • Thick: And Other Essays

Until recently, there was very little understanding or acknowledgment of the physical and psychological effects of systemic racism, intergenerational trauma, and gender discrimination.

Anne Helen Petersen • That's a Stress Response

“I have to tell you, I was the only person there whose name I didn’t know,” Heilpern says.

Michael Schulman • The Legacy of Interview Magazine and a Trip to 1988

of the New Journalism (which put a new emphasis on the voice and point of view of the reporter),

Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

The people who think of themselves as White have the choice of becoming human or irrelevant. Or—as they are, indeed, already, in all but actual fact: obsolete. For, if trouble don’t last always, as the Preacher tells us, neither does Power, and it is on the fact or the hope or the myth of Power that that identity which calls itself White has always

James Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son

They argue that dynamic exists because these racialized accusations of fraud serve a function for these Americans: They allow them to preserve their sense of superiority over nonwhite Americans and continue to support democracy in theory, while still rejecting electoral outcomes that they don’t agree with. In this way, racialized talk of voter frau... See more

Christian Paz • Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally showed how racism is the beating heart of election denial

Girls perform emotional and physical labors that mirror what sociologists have termed “aesthetic labor,” common in the service industries. Flight attendants, retail workers, waiters—pretty much anyone in service has to “look good and sound right” according to their company’s brand identity.