• Politics

    News and Culture

    Michelle de Kretser:
    “I ask you—I beg you—to join us in speaking out for Palestine.”

    From her acceptance speech for the 2025 Stella Prize

     
    By Michelle de Krester  May 30, 2025
    Character Studies

    How Curtis Sittenfeld’s “American Wife” Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

    By Jessica Stanley  May 28, 2025
    Anniversary

    Hari Kunzru Reflects on Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism Thirty Years After Publication

    By Hari Kunzru  May 22, 2025
    Policing

    Saying No to Cop City: Reviving a Radical Black Liberation Movement in Atlanta and Beyond

    By Curtis Duncan  May 21, 2025
    The Hub

    The Abrams Union wants a “more equitable, ethical, and transparent” publisher.

    By James Folta  May 16, 2025
    literary criticism

    L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: The Wizard of Oz at 125 Years

    By Ed Simon  May 16, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Supreme Court

    Does the Supreme Court Really Just Run on Vibes Now?

    By Leah Litman  May 15, 2025
    TV Writing

    Enjoying the Sweet Stink of The Gilded Age in the Age of Billionaires

    By Danielle Teller  May 15, 2025
    Sexuality

    Why the World’s First Celebrity Sex Therapist Had to Flee the Nazis

    By Daniel Brook  May 14, 2025
    The Hub

    The revolutionary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died.

    By Brittany Allen  May 29, 2025
    The Hub

    In a new lawsuit, the Authors Guild is going toe to toe with DOGE.

    By Brittany Allen  May 13, 2025
    Consumerism

    Why Donald Trump and JD Vance Can’t Stop Talking About Dolls

    By Alissa Quart  May 12, 2025
    Transphobia

    How Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Mirror the WWII Persecution of Japanese Americans

    By Tracy Slater  May 12, 2025
    What If?

    Mushroom Cloud Over Manhattan: What Would Happen in the First Few Hours of Nuclear War

    Mark Lynas Looks at a Worst-Case Scenario—and How to Prevent it From Becoming a Reality

    By Mark Lynas  May 12, 2025
    Antifascism

    What If It Is Happening Here? Lessons From the Anti-Fascist Novel in Trump’s Second Term

    By David Renton  May 12, 2025
    The Hub

    Your week in book news, in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  May 9, 2025
    The Hub

    The Trump Administration just fired America’s top librarian.

    By James Folta  May 9, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what to do if your NEA grant has been terminated.

    By Brittany Allen  May 9, 2025
    Catholicism

    You Don’t Have to Believe in God to Find Hope in Pope Leo

    By Aron Solomon  May 9, 2025
    Indigenous Lit

    An Indigenous Theory of Water: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Rivers as Teachers

    By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson  May 8, 2025
    Publishing

    On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

    By Maris Kreizman  May 8, 2025
    Irish History

    An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine

    Padraic X. Scanlan on Jonathan Swift, Colonization, and Dispossession

    By Padraic X. Scanlan  May 7, 2025
    Writing Communities

    Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

    By Rosa Castellano  May 7, 2025
    Entertainment

    How Reality Television Warps Our Understanding of Political and Economic Realities

    By Eunji Kim  May 7, 2025
    Apocalypses

    And If This Is(n’t) the End of the World? Why We Dread—and Desire—Apocalypse

    By Alex Foster  May 14, 2025
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