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    By James Folta  June 6, 2025
    Nature Writing

    The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses

    By Daegan Miller  June 5, 2025
    American Politics

    States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution

    By Brando Simeo Starkey  June 5, 2025
    LGBTQ Stories

    The Wrong Story: Jeremy Atherton Lin on Writing Love and Politics

    By Jeremy Atherton Lin  June 5, 2025
    Queer History

    How Britain’s 1980s Anti-Gay Laws Impacted a Generation of Young LGBTQ Readers

    By Claire Lynch  June 3, 2025
    American Politics

    From Charlottesville to the White House: How the “Unite the Right” Rally Altered American Politics

    By Deborah Baker  June 3, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
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    Michelle de Kretser:
    “I ask you—I beg you—to join us in speaking out for Palestine.”

    By Michelle de Krester  May 30, 2025
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    The revolutionary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died.

    By Brittany Allen  May 29, 2025
    Character Studies

    How Curtis Sittenfeld’s “American Wife” Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

    By Jessica Stanley  May 28, 2025
    Incarcerated Writers

    Compulsory Silence: On the State-Led Suppression of Language in American Prisons

    Amir Hussain Considers Prison Literature, Past and Present

    By Amir Hussain  June 6, 2025
    Policing

    Saying No to Cop City: Reviving a Radical Black Liberation Movement in Atlanta and Beyond

    By Curtis Duncan  May 21, 2025
    The Hub

    The Abrams Union wants a “more equitable, ethical, and transparent” publisher.

    By James Folta  May 16, 2025
    literary criticism

    L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: The Wizard of Oz at 125 Years

    By Ed Simon  May 16, 2025
    Supreme Court

    Does the Supreme Court Really Just Run on Vibes Now?

    Leah Litman Explains the Legal Theories Weaponized by Conservative Justices Against the Administrative State

    By Leah Litman  May 15, 2025
    TV Writing

    Enjoying the Sweet Stink of The Gilded Age in the Age of Billionaires

    By Danielle Teller  May 15, 2025
    Sexuality

    Why the World’s First Celebrity Sex Therapist Had to Flee the Nazis

    By Daniel Brook  May 14, 2025
    Apocalypses

    And If This Is(n’t) the End of the World? Why We Dread—and Desire—Apocalypse

    By Alex Foster  May 14, 2025
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    In a new lawsuit, the Authors Guild is going toe to toe with DOGE.

    By Brittany Allen  May 13, 2025
    Consumerism

    Why Donald Trump and JD Vance Can’t Stop Talking About Dolls

    By Alissa Quart  May 12, 2025
    Transphobia

    How Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Mirror the WWII Persecution of Japanese Americans

    By Tracy Slater  May 12, 2025
    What If?

    Mushroom Cloud Over Manhattan: What Would Happen in the First Few Hours of Nuclear War

    By Mark Lynas  May 12, 2025
    Antifascism

    What If It Is Happening Here? Lessons From the Anti-Fascist Novel in Trump’s Second Term

    David Renton Rereads Lewis and Roth in a New Era of Authoritarianism

    By David Renton  May 12, 2025
    The Hub

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    By James Folta  May 9, 2025
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    The Trump Administration just fired America’s top librarian.

    By James Folta  May 9, 2025
    Anniversary

    Hari Kunzru Reflects on Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism Thirty Years After Publication

    By Hari Kunzru  May 22, 2025
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