Folk Culture

One broiling Friday last month, I visited the emergency room of Mayo Hospital, the largest hospital in Pakistan. For more...

One week ago, Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate. “Veepstakes”—the vice presidential...

Sixteen years ago, during my last semester of law school, I caused a drunk-driving crash that killed my girlfriend. I...

Early on in Danzy Senna’s new novel, Colored Television, her biracial writer-professor protagonist, Jane, takes a meeting with Hampton Ford,...

Just before Elon Musk was set to host Donald Trump Monday night in an audio livestream on X, the tech...

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Coming-of-age movies tend to follow the same patterns. Over the course of a school year (or a summer), a young...

This year’s “Song of the Summer” is highly contested; artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Charli XCX, and Sabrina Carpenter have...

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Susie Lawing moved to Cohasset, a small community located in the forested canyons above the city of Chico, California, in...