House of Day, House of Night
Olga Tokarczuk
In a region that was once Germany but is now Poland, a woman and her husband make a life in a house where a stream runs through the foundation.
Freedom from unreal loyalties
On A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas
Pedro the Vast
Simón López Trujillo
Pedro is vast, but he is also hidden and mysterious, tucked behind locked doors and a colloquy of priests and doctors.
Into the gap
It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented.
Reconsidering Reparations
Olúfémi O. Táíwò
Olúfémi O. Táíwò argues for a constructive form of reparations: distributive justice that looks to the past to construct a transition from the global racial empire we have today to the more just world we wish to arrive at tomorrow—and beyond.
The Shapeless Unease
Samantha Harvey
Struck by the sudden and untimely death of her cousin, and distressed by the terrible political order, Samantha Harvey finds that she cannot sleep.
The “correct” attitude
On Reclaiming Work
The Third Reich of Dreams
Charlotte Beradt
In 1933, shortly after Hitler took power, Charlotte Beradt started having nightmares.
Automation conformity
On The Meaning of Anxiety
The Meaning of Anxiety
Rollo May
Rollo May refutes the assertion that mental health is living without anxiety, proposing instead that anxiety is a necessary condition for creativity, intellect, and freedom.
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
Six people—four astronauts and two cosmonauts—may be among the last to circle the Earth.
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
In a glass-walled city ruled by the totalitarian One State, citizens have no privacy, no identity, no freedom, and no names: they each bear only a number.
Reformed
On A Strategy for Labor
The Salt Eaters
Toni Cade Bambara
“Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?”
Designed to be specialists
On A Strategy for Labor
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
Six children—three girls and three boys—play in a garden by the sea.
Pseudo-culture
On A Strategy for Labor
A Strategy for Labor
André Gorz
“A system that makes people work like zombies to produce useless, destructive, or self-destructive things has outlived its usefulness.”
Patient urgency
On Burnout & The Real World of Technology
The Cancer Journals
Audre Lorde
Between 1978 and 1980, Audre Lorde wrote about her experience with breast cancer and mastectomy, connecting her trials and treatment to her own work and to the collective effort of liberation for all women.