On James Baldwin’s Unflinching Exposé of American Greed and Racial Terror

On James Baldwin’s Unflinching Exposé of American Greed and Racial Terror

Eddie Glaude Jr. Rereads Nothing Personal

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr. | May 6, 2021

Michael Kleber-Diggs and Kao Kalia Yang on How Minnesota’s Literary Community Is Reacting to Racial Injustice

Michael Kleber-Diggs and Kao Kalia Yang on How Minnesota’s Literary Community Is Reacting to Racial Injustice

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell
on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 6, 2021

How US Newspapers Became Utterly Ubiquitous in the 1830s

How US Newspapers Became Utterly Ubiquitous in the 1830s

Ken Ellingwood on the Social and Political Function of Print Media

By kenellingwood | May 6, 2021

Tim Wu on the Corporate Dangers of a Return to Fascism

Tim Wu on the Corporate Dangers of a Return to Fascism

This Week on Just the Right Book Podcast with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | May 6, 2021

The key to dodging cyber censorship rules might be . . . a Minecraft library?

The key to dodging cyber censorship rules might be . . . a Minecraft library?

By Walker Caplan | May 5, 2021

Read the open letter calling out transphobia in the British book industry.

Read the open letter calling out transphobia in the British book industry.

By Walker Caplan | May 5, 2021

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Dylanalia, Deep Data, and More: New and Noteworthy Nonfiction This May

By Literary Hub | May 5, 2021

Hanif Abdurraqib on Decentering Pain in the Stories of Black Lives

By Thresholds | May 5, 2021

Stacey Abrams’s out-of-print romance novels have been picked up by Penguin Random House.

By Walker Caplan | May 4, 2021

Cross Your Legs, Stretch Your Hymen, Toss Your Ambition: The World According to Early “Marriage Classes”

Cross Your Legs, Stretch Your Hymen, Toss Your Ambition: The World According to Early “Marriage Classes”

Danielle Dreilinger on the College Courses That
Sought to Reduce Divorce

By Danielle Dreilinger | May 4, 2021

WATCH: Niall Ferguson on the Increasing Levels of Human Incompetence When Handling Disasters

WATCH: Niall Ferguson on the Increasing Levels of Human Incompetence When Handling Disasters

In conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By The Virtual Book Channel | May 4, 2021

Redefining the Modern Flâneuse: A Reading List

Redefining the Modern Flâneuse: A Reading List

Kavita Bedford Recommends Work By Valeria Luiselli, Olivia Laing, and More

By Kavita Bedford | May 3, 2021

Drunkards, Nazis, and Fascist Masculinity: The Ambivalent Resistance Lit of Hans Fallada

Drunkards, Nazis, and Fascist Masculinity: The Ambivalent Resistance Lit of Hans Fallada

Clayton Wickham Rereads The Drinker

By Clayton Wickham | May 3, 2021

Eula Biss on How Motherhood Radicalized Adrienne Rich

Eula Biss on How Motherhood Radicalized Adrienne Rich

“Women are workers and workers are women.”

By Eula Biss | April 30, 2021

Luke Menand on George Orwell’s Vision of Freedom

Luke Menand on George Orwell’s Vision of Freedom

In Conversation with Christopher Lydon on Radio Open Source

By Open Source | April 30, 2021

Rebecca Solnit: How Donald Trump Wanted the End of History

Rebecca Solnit: How Donald Trump Wanted the End of History

A Hundred Days Into the New Era, Looking Back on the Old

By Rebecca Solnit | April 29, 2021

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