Prejudices Archives

Prejudices

The Forever Cure

Is civil commitment rehabilitating sex offenders—or punishing them?

Eric Duncan

by Philip Roth,

By Philip Roth, from remarks he gave at a celebration of his seventy-fifth birthday at Columbia University in 2008. They are included in Philip Roth: Why Write?, which will be published…

The House We Live In

by Claudia Rankine,

By Claudia Rankine, from Citizen: An American Lyric, published last month by Graywolf Press. Rankine is the author of several books of poems, including Plot, The End of the Alphabet,…