Edwidge Danticat Remembers September 11th

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Twenty years after the events of September 11th, the writer Edwidge Danticat reads from her essay “Flight,” about the way that tragedies are memorialized by those who survive them. Anand Gopal reports on the Taliban, whose young rank and file are hardly aware of the September 11th attacks that led to the twenty-year American campaign in Afghanistan. Jeannie Suk Gersen unpacks the novel mechanisms by which Texas S.B. 8 seems to undermine constitutional protections on abortion. And Jia Tolentino reports on a live show by the musician Caroline Polachek—the writer’s first since the pandemic began.

Edwidge Danticat on “Flight”

The writer reads from her 2011 essay about the September 11th attacks and a devastating earthquake in Haiti.


What’s the Future of the Taliban?

The Taliban have taken charge of Afghanistan once again. What comes next?


The Procedural Traps of the Texas Abortion Law

Texas S.B. 8 violates constitutional protections on abortion. Two legal scholars examine how the law effectively cut judicial review out of the equation.


Jia Tolentino on Caroline Polachek’s Post-Pandemic Gig

The writer shadows a pop musician getting ready to play her first live concert since March, 2020, for the biggest crowd of her career.


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