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No Place Like Home: A Letter From Our Creative Director
Introducing Pacific Standard's collaborative August 2018 photo issue.
PS Picks: Hulu’s ‘Harlots,’ a Show That Foregrounds the Concerns of Women Above All Else
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
PS Picks: German Playwright Friedrich Schiller’s ‘Love and Intrigue’
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
A portrait of the stressed and shrinking American middle class.
The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)
Ken Auletta's latest book explores the chaotic world of contemporary advertising.
Objects That Matter: Taxidermy
Arsenic was long a preservative in the taxidermic process, despite criticism of the method as unnecessarily dangerous. But at least one contemporary scholar has suggested that metabolized arsenic extended the lives of late 19th-century taxidermists by decades.
Since We Last Spoke: The End of Locker-Room Talk as We Know It
Updates to stories from the Pacific Standard archive.
PS Picks: Porochista Khakpour’s Unflinchingly Honest New Memoir
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.