What if she found out that that she’d raised the kind of girl who “necked and petted and flew to New York,” whose “pants were wet with the sticky white filth of desire”? “She’s not my daughter,” Plath ...

Susan Neiman is a moral and political philosopher and Director Emeritus of the Einstein Forum in Germany. Her latest book is Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era.

“A mental pentathlete.” That’s how Joyelle McSweeney describes the genre-defying Canadian writer Anne Carson—the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, the subject of several other BR essays, ...

Kristin Grogan is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University and author of Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work. She is working on a book about Sylvia Plath.

Science, the public good, and human understanding itself are under attack. Here’s how to save them.