• Features

    World War II

    Fictionalizing the Stories of Two Women Who Fought to Save Jewish Children in World War II-Era Europe

    By Kristin Beck  September 16, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Daniel Silva, Read by Edoardo Ballerini

    By Behind the Mic   September 16, 2022
    Mental health

    How Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther Led to a Rare Suicide Cluster

    By Dr. Nicholas Kardaras  September 15, 2022
    American Politics

    On the Political Weaponization of Words: From “Miscegenation” to “Groomer”

    By Bruce Handy  September 15, 2022
    On Writing

    On the Myth of the Made Writer and the Madness of Emerging

    By Kailyn McCord  September 15, 2022
    Human Behavior

    Why Smarter People Might Be More Prone to Irrational Biases

    By Woo-kyoung Ahn  September 15, 2022
    Incarcerated Writers

    Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2022 Insider Prize, Selected by Lauren Hough

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Rachel Aviv: Why It’s Difficult to Trust Your Own Experiences of Mental Illness

    By The Maris Review  September 15, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    On Meaning and Time: Andrea Barrett on What the Past Tells Us About Today

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 15, 2022
    Espionage

    The True Stories of the Women on the Front Lines of America’s Fledgling Intelligence Services

    By Nathalia Holt  September 15, 2022
    Trans History

    The Liberating and Sexual Potential of Gender Nonconformity, circa 1611

    By Dr. Kit Heyam  September 15, 2022
    Diasporic Voices

    Abundant Joy: 9 Black Diasporic Voices Imagine a Better World

    By Natasha Marin  September 15, 2022
    Open Form

    How MC Hammer Helped a Classic in Asian American Cinema Get Made

    By Open Form  September 15, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Tammy Nguyễn is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  September 15, 2022
    Poetry

    “Genealogy.” A Poem by Aldo Amparán

    By Aldo Amparán  September 15, 2022
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    The Queen at War: A Young Elizabeth’s Role in WWII

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   September 15, 2022
    Keen On

    How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Simultaneously Complacent and Paranoid

    By Keen On  September 15, 2022
    Keen On

    How Complicit Is Big Law in the Crimes and Misdemeanors of American Capitalism?

    By Keen On  September 15, 2022
    Keen On

    Brains, Breasts, Bowels, and Bladders: A History of the World Through Body Parts

    By Keen On  September 15, 2022
    Keen On

    We’ll Play Till We Die: The Role of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World

    By Keen On  September 15, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Bad Actors by Mick Herron, Read by Gerard Doyle

    By Behind the Mic   September 15, 2022
    The Writers Institute

    Jonathan Franzen: What Happens If We No Longer Have Bookstore Readings?

    By The Writers Institute  September 14, 2022
    18th Century Literature

    How a Group of Young Writers and Poets Revolutionized 18th-Century Literature

    By Andrea Wulf  September 14, 2022
    Food Memoirs

    A Life Told in Dishes: Five Essential Food Memoirs

    By Sylvie Bigar  September 14, 2022
    Journalism

    How Dealing in Facts Helps Fiction Writers Hone Their Craft

    By Tracey Lien  September 14, 2022
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