• Politics

    Protest

    Sara Stridsberg on Reading Omar El Akkad Amidst the Serbian Protests

    “I still take El Akkad’s book with me everywhere, holding it tight as if it can save my soul. It can’t.”

     
    By Sara Stridsberg  September 15, 2025
    Immigration

    “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself” Means Everyone—Including Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees

    By John Fugelsang  September 12, 2025
    literary criticism

    On the Conservatism of Contemporary Literary Fiction

    By Nathaniel Moore  September 10, 2025
    The Hub

    Everything you need to know about the Powell’s AI slop snafu—and what we can all learn from it.

    By Brittany Allen  September 9, 2025
    Craft

    The Case for Polyamory: Alejandro Varela on Writing a Novel That Questions Everything

    By Alejandro Varela  September 9, 2025
    Gentrification

    Friedrich Engels Predicted Modern Gentrification 150 Years Ago

    By P.E. Moskowitz  September 9, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    Never thought $1.5 billion was a small amount of money until this AI settlement.

    By James Folta  September 8, 2025
    Travel

    How Ms. Rachel is using her platform to school American grown-ups.

    By Brittany Allen  September 5, 2025
    The Hub

    This week’s news in Venn diagrams

    By James Folta  September 5, 2025
    Iran

    Why There Can Be No Freedom in Iran Without Freedom For Women

    Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy on How the Murder of Mahsa Jîna Amini Sparked a Revolution

    By Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy  September 15, 2025
    The Hub

    Some phrases I wish Democrats would actually stop using.

    By James Folta  September 4, 2025
    Gaza

    Hearts Touched With Fire: Horror and Hope in a Time of Genocide

    By Jack Sheehan  September 4, 2025
    On Translation

    A New Translation of Grave of the Fireflies Commemorates 80 Years Since the End of WWII

    By Ginny Tapley Takemori  September 4, 2025
    Democracy

    Are Americans Being Conditioned to Accept Delayed Elections?

    For Aron Solomon, Warning Signs Are Flashing Everywhere

    By Aron Solomon  September 3, 2025
    Memoir

    The Necessity of Return: On Years of Ritual Killings in Nigeria

    By Adedayo Agarau  September 3, 2025
    Immigration

    Howling Into the Wind: On 41 years of Writing About the Abuses of the Immigration System

    By Daniel A. Olivas  September 3, 2025
    Gaza

    An Open Letter on the Massacre in Gaza from an Editor in Israel

    By Uriel Kon  September 2, 2025
    The Hub

    This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  August 29, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  August 29, 2025
    Gaza

    Dr. Seema Jilani on the Dark Parallels Between Srebrenica and Gaza

    By Seema Jilani  August 29, 2025
    Gaza

    To Write Poetry After Gaza is a Necessity

    By Huda Fakhreddine  August 28, 2025
    Politics

    Books Aren’t Magic Empathy Pills (But They Help)

    Maris Kreizman on the Importance of Standing Up For Literature

    By Maris Kreizman  August 28, 2025
    The Internet

    On the Cyber Soldiers Defending the Cuban Revolution From Internet Slander

    By Abraham Jiménez Enoa  August 28, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s Obama’s 2025 summer reading list.

    By Brittany Allen  August 27, 2025
    World War I

    The WWI Battle That Never Ended: Finding Unexploded Mines in Verdun’s Fields

    By Michael Jerome Plunkett  September 5, 2025
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