Front Table

On this week’s Front Table, journey into the Amazon with a journalist whose final quest exposes urgent truths about the rainforest, trace one woman’s life across decades shaped by loss and longing, and step into the glittering salons of a Harlem heiress at the height of the Renaissance. Follow a family of luchadores grappling with legacy and identity, and reframe King Lear through the haunting lens of Maoist China. Aboard a cosmic ship, three giants speak to survive, while Hollywood’s hidden queer voices rise from a past of censorship. 

On this week’s Front Table, trace the ecological and cultural evolution of Puerto Rico through a people’s long fight for self-determination, and wander an island caught between memory, exile, and belonging. Revisit an ancient biblical answer to the question of how evil came into the world, and encounter a fractured family reckoning with loss and the fragile ties that bind them. Discover a subcontinent’s contested past as it shapes the complexities of today and witness a poetic experiment encoded in DNA, designed to endure the end of the world. Finally, delve into the tangled aesthetics of motherhood in contemporary art and care work. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.

On this week’s Front Table, enter a story of art, obsession, and mind-sharing technology; follow a Harvard senior as she teeters between reinvention and collapse in a country that offers her no legal future; and witness a therapist’s deep dive into the misunderstood world of borderline personality disorder. Trace the hidden roots of American capitalism through the rise of multilevel marketing, reflect on ancient philosophies for surviving ecological catastrophe, and descend into Earth’s crust to meet the alien microbes thriving in its most extreme depths. Finally, lose yourself in a haunting, hallucinatory tale of desire and devastation as a frozen apocalypse inches ever closer.