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Your Favorite Male Rapper’s Favorite Rapper
Jessica Lynne on Missy Elliott’s Offstage Sonic World
By
Jessica Lynne
| March 9, 2026
On the Rise of
Pitchfork
and 21st-Century Music Criticism
Ronen Givony on the Early Days of Music Reviewing
By
Ronen Givony
| March 6, 2026
8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day
Jess deCourcy Hinds on the Librarians Who’ve Inspired Her
By
Jess deCourcy Hinds
| March 6, 2026
Literary Celebrity, Mussolini’s Mouthpiece, AND American Traitor: Who Was Ezra Pound?
Stephen Harding on the Modernist Poet and His Fascist Politics
By
Stephen Harding
| March 5, 2026
A Woman in the World: Colm Tóibín on the Short Fiction of Mary Lavin
“She had spent her life describing others and finding strategies to create versions of herself on the page; it was not easy to categorize her.”
By
Colm Tóibín
| March 3, 2026
Anti-Fascist Writers, Fascist Family Legacies: Reading Nicholas Mosley in 2026
Tobias Carroll on the Shockingly Mixed Legacy of England’s Mosley Family
By
Tobias Carroll
| February 27, 2026
Best Reviewed
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Jesse Jackson Loved Us—Sometimes Before We Loved Ourselves
By
Steven W. Thrasher
| February 25, 2026
The European Myth of Indigenous “Savages”
By
David J. Silverman
| February 25, 2026
Among the Fascists and the Nazis: How Two Women Journalists Survived the Chaos of 1930s Europe
By
Julia Cooke
| February 24, 2026
James Baldwin‘s Lessons For Black Gay Rights Activists
C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost on How History Bestowed an Identity on Baldwin that He Never Claimed Himself
By
C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost
| February 24, 2026
Namwali Serpell on Approaching Toni Morrison’s Work As a Reader and a Critic
Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of
On Morrison
By
Jane Ciabattari
| February 17, 2026
Meet the Father of Modern European Fascism: The Marquis de Morès
Sergio Luzzatto on the French Origins of the Revolutionary Far-Right
By
Sergio Luzzatto
| February 17, 2026
The Origin of Prince’s Iconic Sound
Rashad Shabazz on the Black Music Scene in Mid-Twentieth Century Minneapolis
By
Rashad Shabazz
| February 17, 2026
Some Perfect Exact Words: On the Real Legacy of Elizabeth Wurtzel
Matthew Zipf Considers the Mesmerizing Immediacy of the Author's Work
By
Matthew Zipf
| February 12, 2026
A Timeless Take on Autobiography: Audre Lorde’s
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Evie Shockley Remembers the Poet’s Innovative Excavation of the Self
By
Evie Shockley
| February 9, 2026
The Radical Power of a Bookstore: On Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights
Gioia Woods Reflects on the Life of a Literary Icon
By
Gioia Woods
| February 6, 2026
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Polly Stewart
Luke Dumas on Weight Loss Horror, Stephen King’s
Thinner
, and the 1990s
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by
Luke Dumas
Rob Phillips on Combining Comedy and Danger in His Debut Crime Novel
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by
Rob Phillips
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