Tarini Sharma
tarinisharma03@gmail.com; @tarini.design
The World Isn’t Ready for what Comes after IVF
There’s a vibe shift coming for reproductive medicine. By Ari Schulman
Art Director: Sam Whitney
He Didn’t Kill Anyone. Alabama Is About to Execute Him Anyway
Sonny Burton’s plea of clemency and its significance. By Elizabeth Vartkessian.
Art Director: Elana Schlenker
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
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? By Eleçin Poyrazlar.
Art Director: Arnau Busquets Guàrdia
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. By Maia Szalavitz.
Art Director: Shoshana Schultz
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. By Julia M. Klein.
Art Director: Ben Kothe
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)
Why Do We Allow Child Marriage in America?
Written by Nicholas Kristof.
Art Director: Sam Whitney
Sans Merci
The French far right co-opts feminism. By Rebecca Nathanson.
Art Director: Philip DiBello, Devin Washburn (No Ideas)
What Iranians Lost When Israel Bombed it’s Most Notorious Prison
Israel’s attack has shattered something deep within the Iranian people. By Sahar Delijani.
Art Director: Shoshana Schultz
There’s No Such Thing as a Meaningful Death
The protagonist in Kaveh Akbar’s new novel wants to believe in something strongly enough that he’s willing to die for it. By Nicolás Medina Mora.
Art Director: Ben Kothe
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? By Aditya Bahl.
Art Director: Gerry Brakus
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. By Sanya Monsoor.
Art Director: Arsh Raziuddin
Democrats Need to Understand That Opinions on Israel are Changing Fast
What we can learn from the New York Democratic mayoral primary. By Peter Beinart.
Art Director: Rebecca Chew
The Case for Disqualifying Trump is Strong
By David French.
Art Director: Sam Whitney
6x9 inches, paper.
Deep Water
We watch natural disasters differently now. By Brooke Jarvis.
Art Director: Rachel Willey
The Exploitable Refugee
Displaced people as low-cost labor
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. By Ilana Masad.
Art Director: Jo Imperio
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. By Nishant Injam
Art Director: Ben Kothe
5x7 inches, paper.