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This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | August 8, 2025

Dreading Those Sunny Days: The Perils of Surviving Without Shade as a Homeless Person

Dreading Those Sunny Days: The Perils of Surviving Without Shade as a Homeless Person

Sam Bloch Shines Light on How Sun Relief as an Economic Resource in the Era of Capitalism and Climate Change

By Sam Bloch | August 8, 2025

How Would Jane Austen Define an “Accomplished Woman” Today?

How Would Jane Austen Define an “Accomplished Woman” Today?

Grace Aldridge on Rereading Jane Austen After the End of Her Marriage 

By Grace Aldridge | August 8, 2025

After the Spike: What Slow and Steady Depopulation Means For the World

After the Spike: What Slow and Steady Depopulation Means For the World

Dean Spears and Michael Geruso on the New Normal For Global Population Growth and Decline

By Dean Spears and Michael Geruso | August 8, 2025

What the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting means for Viewers Like You.

What the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting means for Viewers Like You.

By Brittany Allen | August 7, 2025

Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

Princess Joy L. Perry on Freedom, Servitude, and Writing a Novel Set in the Seventeenth Century

By Princess Joy L. Perry | August 7, 2025

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On the Future of Small Presses in the Aftermath of the NEA Grant Chaos

By Elizabeth Kaye Cook | August 6, 2025

Get ready for too many books by right-wing Justices.

By James Folta | August 5, 2025

One small thing to do today: Pressure mainstream media to cover the Gaza famine.

By Brittany Allen | August 5, 2025

Israel's most famous novelist says his country is committing genocide.

Israel's most famous novelist says his country is committing genocide.

By Dan Sheehan | August 1, 2025

On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)

On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)

Meg Pillow Unpacks an Archetype and Tells Her Own Story

By Meg Pillow | July 31, 2025

Why you should read Howard Zinn’s <em>Artists in Times of War</em> now.

Why you should read Howard Zinn’s Artists in Times of War now.

By James Folta | July 30, 2025

“If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.” On the Privileges of Misery

“If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.” On the Privileges of Misery

Philip Metres on the Eternal Brilliance of a Russian Master

By Philip Metres | July 30, 2025

An Open Letter to the Portland Book Festival

An Open Letter to the Portland Book Festival

“We ask you to say ’no’ to sponsorship from banks that profit from and facilitate the destruction of Palestine.”

By Literary Hub | July 29, 2025

"Where is my antisemitism money?": A Columbia professor's letter to the university president.

By James Schamus | July 28, 2025

Una Cultura en Juego: Identity, Erasure and Language in America Today

Una Cultura en Juego: Identity, Erasure and Language in America Today

Natalie Guerrero: “All these years I’ve been asking the wrong question, and what I wake up with today is another one burning inside me”

By Natalie Guerrero | July 28, 2025

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