George Orwell’s Doublethink: How Much Can—Or Should—We Know About Our Literary Idols?

George Orwell’s Doublethink: How Much Can—Or Should—We Know About Our Literary Idols?

Anna Funder on Authorial Privacy, Moral Decency and the Persistent, Omnipresent Menace of Patriarchy

By Anna Funder | February 24, 2025

How to write a funny book about American immigration.

How to write a funny book about American immigration.

By James Folta | February 21, 2025

How Two of America’s Biggest Columnists Reacted to the Assassination of Malcolm X

How Two of America’s Biggest Columnists Reacted to the Assassination of Malcolm X

Ted Hamm on Jimmy Breslin and Langston Hughes

By Ted Hamm | February 21, 2025

Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities

Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities

“The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.”

By Judith Butler | February 20, 2025

How Democracy Supporters Can Still Beat Back the Rising Tide of Fascism

How Democracy Supporters Can Still Beat Back the Rising Tide of Fascism

Katherine Stewart on the Internal Contradictions of the Current American Antidemocratic Movement

By Katherine Stewart | February 20, 2025

If Trump can’t kill you, he wants to hurt you.

If Trump can’t kill you, he wants to hurt you.

By James Folta | February 19, 2025

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In Purging Language About Trans People, Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Trying to Purge the People Themselves

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 19, 2025

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

By Aaron Robertson | February 19, 2025

Wife, Mother, Labor Organizer: On the Hidden Activist Life of Betty Friedan

By Haley Mlotek | February 18, 2025

How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

Leaning Into the Death of Lean-In Feminism and Its Many Resurrections in Our Conflicted Zeitgeist

By Sophie Lewis | February 18, 2025

Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Maya & Natasha”

By Jane Ciabattari | February 18, 2025

How Systemic Racism Leads to a Lifetime of Self-Imposed Isolation For Black Americans

How Systemic Racism Leads to a Lifetime of Self-Imposed Isolation For Black Americans

Chad Sanders on Learning to Process the Societal and Psychological Effects of Anti-Blackness

By Chad Sanders | February 14, 2025

Winter is Here: On the Chilling Effect of Elon Musk and Donald Trump

Winter is Here: On the Chilling Effect of Elon Musk and Donald Trump

Rob Spillman Worries About the Growing Specter of Self-Censorship

By Rob Spillman | February 13, 2025

Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

Rich Benjamin on Daniel Fignolé, Papa Doc Duvalier, and the Kidnapping That Changed His Family

By Rich Benjamin | February 13, 2025

How Authors Against Book Bans helped defeat attempted library censorship in Florida.

How Authors Against Book Bans helped defeat attempted library censorship in Florida.

By James Folta | February 12, 2025

Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

Nicki Kattoura on Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Perfect Victims”

By Nicki Kattoura | February 12, 2025

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