Pedro is vast, but he is also hidden and mysterious, tucked behind locked doors and a colloquy of priests and doctors.

It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented.

Olúfémi O. Táíwò argues for a *constructive* form of reparations: distributive justice that looks to the past to construct a transition from the global racial empire we have today to the more just world we wish to arrive at tomorrow—and beyond.

Struck by the sudden and untimely death of her cousin, and distressed by the terrible political order, Samantha Harvey finds that she cannot sleep.

In one layoff announcement after another, we hear that AI can now do the work of a great many people, which is why fewer people are needed to do the work.

In 1933, shortly after Hitler took power, Charlotte Beradt started having nightmares.

In our effort to escape anxiety, we run further into its jaws.

Rollo May refutes the assertion that mental health is living *without* anxiety, proposing instead that anxiety is a necessary condition for creativity, intellect, and freedom.

Six people—four astronauts and two cosmonauts—may be among the last to circle the Earth.

In a glass-walled city ruled by the totalitarian One State, citizens have no privacy, no identity, no freedom, and no names: they each bear only a number.

A trained secret police is still the secret police.

“Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?”

What kind of people are we designing now?

Six children—three girls and three boys—play in a garden by the sea.

Trust your own eyes.

“A system that makes people work like zombies to produce useless, destructive, or self-destructive things has outlived its usefulness.”

“Psychological experiences require patience while so much in the world demands urgency.”

Between 1978 and 1980, Audre Lorde wrote about her experience with breast cancer and mastectomy, connecting her trials and treatment to her own work and to the collective effort of liberation for all women.

From phenomena to pathology.

Hannah Proctor visits the concept of burnout as the experience of political defeat—the disappointment, despair, and grief that emerges when one becomes aware that the political project they have committed themselves to may not succeed.

bell hooks approaches notions of self-care among communities of Black women, locating it within the work of grief, testimony, and reconciliation.

The tyranny of government is the tyranny of the workplace is the tyranny of the home.

In these three short novels, Le Guin takes us to the Western Shore, where people of magic and people of war and people of books all try to make their lives together.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

This collection of interlocking stories tells of the people who live in a small town on the Oregon coast.

“What is meant by ‘reality’?” asks Virginia Woolf.

In the summer of 1934, Leonard and Virginia Woolf adopted a marmoset named Mitz.

“Are not force and possessiveness very closely connected with war?”

This pair of essays from Virginia Woolf attends to women’s exclusion from educational institutions and economic independence on two fronts.

A politics of refusal must be more than a closed door.