• Politics

    Prison

    Birth of the Jailhouse Lawyer: How Inmate Counsel Saves Prisoners’ Lives

    Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull on William “Joe Writs” Johnson, Law Libraries, and a Constitutional Battle

     
    By Literary Hub  July 8, 2025
    Activism

    What Are the Revolutionaries Reading? Activists Recommend Essential Texts

    By Suzanne Cope  July 3, 2025
    Black Arts

    How Houston’s Third Ward Became a Hub of Black Art, Culture, and Opportunity

    By Lauren O'Neill Butler  July 2, 2025
    Refugees

    On the Dehumanizing Impact of Deportation and Our Obligations to Each Other

    By Laurie Sheck  July 2, 2025
    Publishing

    A Series of Unfortunate Salaries:
    Maris Kreizman on Fighting the Publishing Industry’s Elitism

    By Maris Kreizman  July 1, 2025
    The Hub

    The Supreme Court just approved anti-LGBT book bans.

    By James Folta  June 27, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  June 27, 2025
    AI

    The Courts Just Made Our Libraries Sitting Ducks For AI Plundering

    By Aron Solomon  June 27, 2025
    AI

    Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers

    By Literary Hub  June 27, 2025
    Violence

    How Much is Too Much? On Bearing Witness to Violence in the Digital Age

    Will Potter Considers the Psychological and Social Impact of the (Over) Saturation of Cruelty in the Contemporary Era

    By Will Potter  July 7, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

    What Would Happen If the Chatbots Broke Free of Their Masters?

    By Paul Bradley Carr  June 26, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    The Magical Mundane: Work, Technology and Consumerism in the World of Harry Potter

    By Keridiana Chez  June 26, 2025
    Immigrant Stories

    Uncaring Healthcare: The Impossible Cost of Being Undocumented and Ill in America

    By Alix Dick and Antero Garcia  June 26, 2025
    The Hub

    This is how over 40% of NYC bookstores became unionized.

    By James Folta  June 24, 2025
    Law

    Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

    By Aron Solomon  June 24, 2025
    Reproductive Rights

    Inside Mexican Feminists’ Fight For Safe and Legal Abortion

    By Rebecca Grant  June 24, 2025
    Politics

    Mahmoud Khalil, Zohran Mamdani, and the Politics of Vulnerability

    By Steven W. Thrasher  June 23, 2025
    Fascism

    The Dark Magic of Words: Why Fascism and Illiberalism Are So Seductive to Writers

    Ed Simon Looks at Eduard Limonov, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Yukio Mishima, and Others

    By Ed Simon  June 23, 2025
    Feminism

    How Sex and the City Exemplifies Late 20th-Century Feminist Despair

    By Alice Bolin  June 23, 2025
    Free Speech

    On Egypt’s Unjust Incarceration of the Writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, and the Hunger Strike of Dr. Laila Soueif

    By Margaret Busby  June 20, 2025
    The Hub

    This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  June 20, 2025
    Travel

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

    By Brittany Allen  June 20, 2025
    Free Speech

    “Politics is Everywhere.” A Close and Highly Critical Reading of English PEN’s Charter

    By Kamila Shamsie  June 20, 2025
    Censorship

    Welcome to Pensacola, Florida, America’s Book-Banning Capital

    By Ira Wells  June 18, 2025
    New York City

    Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander Have Shown Us a Way Forward

    By Steven W. Thrasher  June 26, 2025
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