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The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise

The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise

Maris Kreizman on the Difference Between Cancel Culture and Consequence Culture

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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Edwidge Danticat on Haiti and Trump, Past and Present

Edwidge Danticat on Haiti and Trump, Past and Present

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Caren Beilin Is Reading Now, and Next

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Beyond One-Note Nastiness: On Getting Inside the Head of a Despicable Character

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Thomas Pynchon, Marisa Meltzer, Chris Kraus, and more: 24 new books out today!

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Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages

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Uncanny Prescience: Revisiting Kafka’s Amerika

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Mark Harman Considers the Striking Social Commentary of the Unfinished Novel

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Teaching 200 Children in Gaza’s Refugee Camps

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