There’s a Name for That: Invisibility Cloak Illusion
Stuck inside our heads, we all know how much we're watching others, but fail to grasp just how much everyone else is watching us.
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Introducing: The Top 30 Thinkers Under 30
This year's most exciting young thinkers and advocates in policy and social justice.
The Ongoing Revolution to Unite African Literature
The Jalada literary collective has a radical mission: an ongoing translation effort to unite— and elevate—African literature.
Letter From the Editor: What Makes a Revolutionary Idea
Introducing Pacific Standard's May'June 2017 issue.
A Look Inside the Refugees’ Theatre
As the population of displaced Syrians swells in Germany, one storytelling series aims to expedite integration through first-person narrative.
Is Poetry Poised for a Renaissance?
Pacific Standard recommends The Poetry of Pop and Simulacra, two new books that challenge the outdated way doomsayers define poetry.
How Technology Has Already Changed What It Means to Be Human
Pacific Standard recommends To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death, a new book that profiles members of the transhumanist movement.
Subverting the Racially Charged Tropes Often Found in the Horror Genre
Why would a co-host of Key & Peele, a popular sketch show on Comedy Central, make a horror…