• Politics

    The Hub

    The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.

     
    By James Folta  February 7, 2025
    Gaza

    For Andreas Malm, the Destruction of Gaza Runs Parallel to the Destruction of the Planet

    By Andreas Malm  February 6, 2025
    The Hub

    Libraries are already contending with crappy, AI-generated books.

    By James Folta  February 5, 2025
    Politics

    The Making of an Anti-Woke Zealot: How Elon Musk Was Infected with the MAGA Mind-Virus

    By Eoin Higgins  February 5, 2025
    Publishing

    What Publishing Can Do About Trump: Preserve the Independence of Our Bookstores and Libraries

    By Josh Cook  February 4, 2025
    Technology

    Cinema May Be Dying, But Shitposting is a Thriving New Artform

    By Alex Rollins Berg  February 3, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    Here are the finalists for the second annual Inside Prize.

    By Brittany Allen  January 31, 2025
    Urbanism

    How Local and Federal Laws Disenfranchised a Generation of Black Homeowners

    By Bernadette Atuahene  January 31, 2025
    The Hub

    Keep important information about your rights close at hand with these bookmarks.

    By James Folta  January 30, 2025
    The Hub

    How librarians saved the day in World War II.

    Move over, Moneypenny. The first spies were nerds.

    By Brittany Allen  February 6, 2025
    Budgets

    How Trump’s Illegal Administrative Coup Threatened Funding for Everything, Including Libraries.

    By James Folta  January 30, 2025
    The Hub

    Why are we so obsessed with political cartoons?

    By Brittany Allen  January 29, 2025
    Globalization

    Humanity’s Claustrophobia: How Technology and Globalization Created a World in Crisis

    By Robert D. Kaplan  January 29, 2025
    The Nuclear Age

    How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

    Dorian Lynskey on Pierrepoint B. Noyes, H.G. Wells, and the “Superweapons” of Early Science-Fiction

    By Dorian Lynskey  January 28, 2025
    The Hub

    The Trump administration just scored a major goal for book bans. (Which it claims are a “hoax.”)

    By Brittany Allen  January 27, 2025
    Anarchy and Art

    “Anarchism Means That You Should Be Free.” On the Literature of Liberation

    By Ed Simon  January 27, 2025
    Gaza

    Aisha Gawad and Lisa Ko on What Really Happened at the Albany Book Festival

    By Fariha Róisín  January 27, 2025
    Masculinity

    Men Have Bigger Problems Than Not Reading Novels

    For James Folta, What’s Wrong With Men is What’s Wrong With America

    By James Folta  January 24, 2025
    Palestinian Literature

    Betty Shamieh on the Next Generation of Palestinian Fiction

    By Betty Samieh  January 22, 2025
    The Hub

    Now might be a good time to re-read George Orwell.

    By James Folta  January 21, 2025
    Travel

    Make 2025 the year you read more books in translation.

    By Brittany Allen  January 21, 2025
    Mutual Aid

    A Way of Living: On Direct Action and Survival Work in the Face of American Fascism

    Madeline ffitch Reminds Us of What’s at Stake, Every Day of Our Lives

    By Madeline ffitch  January 21, 2025
    Publishing

    Trump 2.0: What the Book World Should Do Now

    By Josh Cook  January 21, 2025
    Mutual Aid

    We Only Have Ourselves: The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual Aid

    By Kim Kelly  January 21, 2025
    Trump Administration

    On Donald Trump’s Aborted Executive Order and the Future of Congressional Power

    By Aron Solomon  January 30, 2025
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