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Why Does Everyone in America Think They're Middle Class?

David R. Roediger on the Myth of American Exceptionalism

 
By David R. Roediger  September 28, 2020

Brian Dillon on the Sentences of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

In Praise of an Artist and Writer Taken Too Soon

 
By Brian Dillon  September 28, 2020

Navigating Literary Censorship—and Worse—in Iran

Amir Ahmadi Arian on Creative Freedom and Sitting at the "Gate of Law"

 
By Amir Ahmadi Arian  September 28, 2020

Whoever Said Platonic Love Can't Be Sexy? (Hint: Not Plato)

Michele Morano on the Geometry of the Love Triangle

 
By Michele Morano  September 28, 2020

The Schoolhouse is Burning: What's Happening to Public Education?

Derek W. Black in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

 
By Keen On  September 28, 2020

The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, September Edition

Chronicles of Europe's Displaced, the War in the Pacific, the Early Years of the CIA, and More

 
By Book Marks  September 28, 2020
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    Populism, Nationalism, Socialism: Charting the Political Moods of Our Time

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    Language Keepers: Compiling the First Ever Wukchumni Dictionary

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    Margot Livesey on the Greatest Writers in Scottish History

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