Emily King

Feature

The Empty Album

Lately, I’ve had time to reflect on the hidden, deeper meaning of five photographs recovered from the wrong side of Chinese history.

By Emily King

May 1, 2020

Nonfiction

Spirituality

Article

School’s Out

Beyond their closure and shift online, colleges and universities have not escaped controversy in this trying period.

By Emily King

April 27, 2020

Coronavirus

Higher Education

Social Justice

Article

‘My Lady, My Saint’

T.S. Eliot’s letters to Emily Hale, recently unsealed, reveal the extent of their thirty-year epistolary romance, and Hale’s undeniable influence on his poetry.

By Emily King

April 10, 2020

Poetry

Spirituality

Article

‘Another Plague’

A desert locust infestation now threatens the food security of East Africa, a region that was already contending with intense drought, floods, heavy rains, and war.

By Emily King

May 19, 2020

Coronavirus

Social Justice

Foreign Affairs

Must Reads

Politics

Donald Trump's New York

Maggie Haberman's book shows how Donald Trump’s New York experience set the context for his odd and sometimes dangerous presidential style.

By Paul Moses

February 20, 2023

Religion

The Anti-Francis Gatekeepers

The death of Cardinal Pell exposed conservative Catholic efforts to secure the reversal of the Francis agenda at the next conclave.

By Austen Ivereigh

January 27, 2023

Culture

Alone in the City

Edward Hopper’s paintings created a New York that conformed to the contours of his own life. His lonely characters strike a familiar chord for any city dweller.

By Robert Rubsam

February 9, 2023