Daily Newsletter An interview with the Pulitzer Prize winner, Lori Waxman on bringing sexy back in Chicago, stolen Picasso prints found, and the problem with clouds.

November 10, 2026 — 4 min read

“I wrote this book because I was paid a shitload of money to write it,” Mona Chalabi says in her new book Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are — or tried to, anyway, before her editor stopped her. The Iraqi-British, Pulitzer-winning artist and illustrator has made a career saying what nobody else can, or will — calling out fellow journalists for their refusal to report on Palestine, for instance. Today, she talks to Associate Editor Laskhmi Rivera Amin about her data-driven, hand-drawn process, as well as how class and inequality shape journalism, art, and our lives.

Funny — as an editor, my favorite thing is not stopping my writers. That’s precisely how Lori Waxman’s piece on the return of sexy art in Chicago was born.…