What does poetry do?

Maybe nothing. Maybe that’s its power.

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Piercing the veil

Zach Williams’s stories of everyday life are propelled by strange turns of events, like a dad discovering his son’s sixth toe in the bath.

What does poetry do?

Maybe nothing. Maybe that’s its power.

Does Nathan Hill wink at us in Wellness?

Why are non-White characters so absent from this urban/suburban narrative?

Politics

A Lincoln parable

Civil War historian Allen Guelzo documents Lincoln’s faith—not in God but in the American experiment.

Against killing children

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.

Playing to the crowds

J. D. Vance’s lies about Haitian immigrants reveal his willingness to trade his dignity for attention.

The forgotten victims of Nazi genocide

Jewish historian Ari Joskowicz tells the story of Hitler’s attempt to wipe out the Roma people.