Mary Rowlandson

Indigenous Americans knew how to avoid starvation. Colonists were too hungry to notice.

The captivity narrative as creation myth.

It seemed to me that the conditions of cancer and captivity shared physical, emotional, and spiritual correspondences.

Or, why families under siege make for great movies.

Purportedly protecting white women has justified centuries of racist violence — while doing little to actually protect white women.

The grand lesson of John McCain's life should be that heroic politics is a broken politics.