‘Fear, Terror, Lost-ness’: How Esmé Weijun Wang Helps Us Understand Schizophrenia
The author, who also suffers from the illness, discusses her new essay collection—a fresh and visceral study of schizophrenia.
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Pacific Standard’s Ideas section is your destination for idea-driven features, voracious culture coverage, sharp opinion, and enlightening conversation.
TOKiMONSTA Refuses to Live With Regret
Producer Jennifer Lee is nominated for a Grammy this year for an album she wrote in the aftermath of life-saving brain surgery.
Women Remaking the Music Industry
A running series in which women musicians of color discuss art, labor, and representation in the music industry.
How Austerity, and a Cowardly Ruling Class, Brought About Brexit
Brexit Britain is an object lesson in how a modern nation fails.
Why Don’t We Ever Seem to Learn From History?
When we ask images and monuments to bear the burden of our conscience, we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Mr. Chen’s Mountain
The story of a Chinese billionaire who moved back home, setting his mansion down in the middle of his economically depressed ancestral village.
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Pacific Standard's new Ideas section is your destination for idea-driven features, voracious culture coverage, sharp opinion, and enlightening conversation.