Is it possible that the fire-haired death chanteuse actually has something to say? A ToM special report.

Butt implants, labor victories, and celibate mice make for a weird week.

Socialism gets a second hearing in America, at the same time that menstrual equity breaks into the otherwise inert and unreasoning public consciousness.

Goldberger’s book unintentionally reveals that baseball is a representation of America — in its everyday realities of discrimination, exclusion, and inequality.

White men — what are they thinking? What do they think about what they think? Is it good to write thinkpieces on thinking about how white men think?

An increasingly stupid world takes solace in Liz Phair, Quixotic cheese, pink buses, and beaver emojis in this week’s round-up.

In Monique Quintana’s novella, Death itself feels like a character, always lingering around or communicating with the living.

It’s hard to believe we’re now so far from the “post-feminist” moment of the 1990s and early 2000s. We find ourselves in a very different place today.