#Essays

Featuring essays by retired civil servants who served in the state, The Kerala Club combines administrative experience with literary flair to chart Kerala’s achievements in terms of human well-being

As AI writing tools continue becoming more common, students, teachers, writers, and editors are...

Among filmmakers, dread over money seemed to outweigh any sense of buzz. By the first weekend the lack of major sales had already become a central topic of conversation.…

A bacterium's genome, pulled into a straight thread, is nearly 1,000 times longer than the cell from which it came.

So, in the cramped airplane’s limited sightlines, I looked for clues about whether these were just regular Midwestern dads, like me, flying for work, or whether they were regular Midwestern dads, flying for work, to terrorize and disappear people.…

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities?…

Delivered Youssef to the place in Maine. I say “the place,” because I don’t know how to describe it. Is it a camp? A hospital? An asylum?

Nowhere did I witness the guardsmen at the gates of the mind — those responsible for self-consciousness and self-doubt — more swiftly outsmarted, pacified, or outright killed than in that room.…