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.
Women wore, and sometimes designed, their own clothes in California prisons until the 1990s, when the state began issuing uniforms to its female inmates.
A nervous storm cloud of historical might-have-beens—a fitting companion to our age of diffuse paranoia.
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.
Sociologist Eve Ewing analyzes the closings from multiple angles.
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.
Sorell Raino-Tsui helps connect Oakland's muralists with customers who can pay them fairly for their work. But what if he's helping hasten gentrification?
RJ Young's memoir recounts how he tried to endear himself to his white in-laws by learning how to shoot. Both love affairs eventually fell apart.
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.
We spoke to Rickey Laurentiis about what he recommends reading, watching, and listening to.
In Ulaanbaatar, a small women's rights group is using comic books to nurture Mongolian women's ambitions.
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 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.
A portrait of the stressed and shrinking American middle class.
Ken Auletta's latest book explores the chaotic world of contemporary advertising.
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.
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.
A new book argues that we can't overcome racism unless white people are willing to be a little uncomfortable.
We spoke to Nicole Perlman about what she recommends reading, watching, and listening to.
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.
Caleb Byerly works with indigenous communities to rediscover—and rebuild—their people's lost instruments.
The question of how one society could arrive at such diametrically opposed visions of its own history is one that vexes not just Georgia.
Miranda Massie hopes the Climate Museum in New York City can convince visitors to be better stewards of the climate—by appealing at once to their intellect and their emotions.
A new book with an imperfect narrator demonstrates the benefits—and limits—of taking right-wing extremists at their word.