What if she found out that that she’d raised the kind of girl who “necked and petted and flew to New York,” whose “pants were wet with the sticky white filth of desire”? “She’s not my daughter,” Plath ...

This essay appears in our Fall 2026 print issue. Subscribe to get a copy. In 1908 American journalist John Kenneth Turner traveled around Mexico with Mexican lawyer, writer, and union organizer Lázaro ...

Susan Neiman is a moral and political philosopher and Director Emeritus of the Einstein Forum in Germany. Her latest book is Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era.