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8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day

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?

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

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

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

Jesse Jackson Loved Us—Sometimes Before We Loved Ourselves

Jesse Jackson Loved Us—Sometimes Before We Loved Ourselves

Steven W. Thrasher on Jackson’s legacy of support for LGBTQ rights and HIV/AIDS prevention

By Steven W. Thrasher | February 25, 2026

The European Myth of Indigenous “Savages”

The European Myth of Indigenous “Savages”

David J. Silverman on Race and Religion in the Colonization of Native Americans

By David J. Silverman | February 25, 2026

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Among the Fascists and the Nazis: How Two Women Journalists Survived the Chaos of 1930s Europe

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James Baldwin‘s Lessons For Black Gay Rights Activists

By C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost | February 24, 2026

Namwali Serpell on Approaching Toni Morrison’s Work As a Reader and a Critic

By Jane Ciabattari | February 17, 2026

Meet the Father of Modern European Fascism: The Marquis de Morès

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

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

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 <em>Zami: A New Spelling of My Name</em>

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

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

Nancy Reddy on Researching Beyond the Archives

Nancy Reddy on Researching Beyond the Archives

Or: Reading Sideways

By Nancy Reddy | February 6, 2026

How Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin Pioneered a New Way of Creating

How Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin Pioneered a New Way of Creating

Katherine Hollander on Intellectual, Political and Artistic Collaboration Among the Exiled Mitarbeiter

By Katherine Hollander | February 4, 2026

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