Tarini Sharma
Sonny Burton’s plea of clemency and its significance
Writer: Elizabeth Vartkessian
Art Director: Elana Schlenker
The World Isn’t Ready for what Comes after IVF
There’s a vibe shift coming for reproductive medicine.
Writer: Ari Schulman
Art Director: Sam Whitney
The Sublime Beauty That Airplanes Leave Behind
Contrails conjure a sense of something overwhelming and ineffable, as terrifying as it is beautiful.
Art Director: Rachel Willey
Hauntings
A study of how our past lives in the present. For the Smith Quarterly’s 2026 winter issue.
Art Director: Nick Marabella, Matt Willey (Pentagram Design)
The A.D.H.D Shortage is Causing Real Pain
The United States cannot continue torturing people who rely on controlled substances to function.
Writer: Maia Szalavitz
Art Director: Shoshana Schultz
Why are Nonprofit Focused More on Dollars than Patients?
Writer: Amol S. Navathe
Art Director: Shoshana Schultz
The Epstein Files Are an X-Ray of How Power Works
Anand Giridharadas interviewed by Ezra Klein.
Art Director: Kristie Bailey
Egypt’s Carceralocracy
Mass imprisonment is a defining feature of Egyptian political life. By Collective Antigone.
Art Director: Philip DiBello, Devin Washburn (No Ideas)
Between ‘the Drive to Forget and the Obligation to Remember’
Argentina’s unfinished reckoning shows how difficult it can be to recover from state terror.
Writer: Julia M. Klein
Art Director: Ben Kothe
There’s No Such Thing as a Meaningful Death
Book review for Kaveh Akbar‘s Martyr!
Writer: Nicolás Medina Mora
Art Director: Ben Kothe
Why Do We Allow Child Marriage in America?
Writer: Nicholas Kristof
Art Director: Sam Whitney
Policing Palestine
ICE’s recent detention and deportation of noncitizen pro-Palestinian students has been part of a wider crackdown on the pro-Palestinian movement by the federal government (and other entities)—and it goes back decades.
Writer: Sanya Monsoor
Art Director: Arsh Raziuddin
The Art of Writing About India
A book review for Kiran Desai’s new novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, her first novel since she won the Booker prize two decades ago. Can Desai avoid resorting to stereotypes about the land of her birth?
Writer: Aditya Bahl
Art Director: Gerry Brakus
Democrats Need to Understand That Opinions on Israel are Changing Fast
What we can learn from the New York Democratic mayoral primary.
Writer: Peter Beinart
Art Director: Rebecca Chew
Sans Merci
The French far right co-opts feminism.
Writer: Rebecca Nathanson
Art Director: Philip DiBello, Devin Washburn (No Ideas)
When Realism is More Powerful Than Science Fiction
In On Strike Against God, Joanna Russ imagined a freer world while confronting its inequities head-on.
Writer: Ilana Masad
Art Director: Jo Imperio
6x9 inches, paper.
The Exploitable Refugee
Displaced people as low-cost labor
Art Director: Philip DiBello, Devin Washburn (No Ideas)
The Power of Women Voters
By Barbara Solow
Art Director: Bina Thorsen, Matt Willey (Pentagram Design)
Burning My Mother
I swept her remains into the grass, and still didn’t believe she was truly gone.
Writer: Nishant Injam
Art Director: Ben Kothe
5x7 inches, paper.
Deep Water
We watch natural disasters differently now.
Writer: Brooke Jarvis
Art Director: Rachel Willey
6x9 inches, paper.
Turkey's Erdoğan bets big with high-stakes Kurdish gamble
As the president's traditional support wanes, he is seeking a risky deal with the Kurds to buy a political lifeline. But is there too much mutual mistrust for a deal?
Writer: Eleçin Poyrazlar
Art Director: Arnau Busquets Guàrdia
The Case for Disqualifying Trump is Strong
Writer: David French
Art Director: Sam Whitney
5x7 inches, paper.
What Iranians Lost When Israel Bombed it’s Most Notorious Prison
Israel’s attack has shattered something deep within the Iranian people.
Writer: Sahar Delijani
Art Director: Shoshana Schultz