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An Australian Photographer’s Dreamy Portraits of Mothers and Their Children in Quarantine

For a new series, Lisa Sorgini captured scenes of parenting in isolation, taking pictures through the windows of her subjects’ homes.

Pico Iyer’s Japanese Love Story, from Spring to “Autumn Light”

In a new memoir, the travel writer returns to the subject of his chosen home, Japan, and to the relationship that has defined his life there.

In “The Collected Schizophrenias,” Esmé Weijun Wang Maps the Terrain of Her Mental Illness

The new essay collection is not a memoir. Instead, Wang uses her own experience as a point of departure for philosophical inquiry.

The Unlikely Politics of a Digital Contraceptive

The F.D.A. recently allowed a controversial mobile app to market itself as a form of digital contraception. Why did it do so, and why is the app so popular?

The Artist Who Captures the Sound of Political Terror

Lawrence Abu Hamdan has written that his work attempts to “make audible those at the threshold of politics—the ghettoized, the political prisoner, the colonized, and the migrant.”

An Australian Photographer’s Dreamy Portraits of Mothers and Their Children in Quarantine

For a new series, Lisa Sorgini captured scenes of parenting in isolation, taking pictures through the windows of her subjects’ homes.

Pico Iyer’s Japanese Love Story, from Spring to “Autumn Light”

In a new memoir, the travel writer returns to the subject of his chosen home, Japan, and to the relationship that has defined his life there.

In “The Collected Schizophrenias,” Esmé Weijun Wang Maps the Terrain of Her Mental Illness

The new essay collection is not a memoir. Instead, Wang uses her own experience as a point of departure for philosophical inquiry.

The Unlikely Politics of a Digital Contraceptive

The F.D.A. recently allowed a controversial mobile app to market itself as a form of digital contraception. Why did it do so, and why is the app so popular?

The Artist Who Captures the Sound of Political Terror

Lawrence Abu Hamdan has written that his work attempts to “make audible those at the threshold of politics—the ghettoized, the political prisoner, the colonized, and the migrant.”