40 writers signed a letter in protest of 'abhorrent' conditions at the US-Mexico border.

40 writers signed a letter in protest of 'abhorrent' conditions at the US-Mexico border.

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Learning How to Write Girls with Agency in Fiction

Learning How to Write Girls with Agency in Fiction

Stephanie Jimenez: Imagining Girlhood Beyond the Threat
of Sexual Violence

By Stephanie Jimenez | July 29, 2019

On the Evolution of Fatness<br> in Society

On the Evolution of Fatness
in Society

Christopher Forth on Religious and Utopian Figurations of the Human Body and Disgust

By Christopher E. Forth | July 29, 2019

The Writer and the Dictator: <br>A Love/Hate Story

The Writer and the Dictator:
A Love/Hate Story

Alaa Al Aswany on Tawfiq al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit and its Influence on Egyptian Politics

By Alaa Al Aswany | July 29, 2019

Everyone Misunderstands the Point of <em>Fight Club</em>

Everyone Misunderstands the Point of Fight Club

Rebecca Renner on the Forgotten Anti-Capitalist Message of an Unjustly Vilified Work

By Rebecca Renner | July 26, 2019

Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare

Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare

What Shakespeare's "Thing of Darkness" Tells Us About Gatekeeping and Language

By Marcos Gonsalez | July 26, 2019

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This is the reading of the Mueller Report you need while you watch Robert Mueller’s Congressional testimony.

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Monica Ali: Reckoning with the Insidious Myth of Positive Discrimination

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On Prejudicial Assumptions About Privilege and Widespread Racism in the World of Books

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On the Hypercapitalist Utopian Project of Singapore

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Ronald Reagan Presided Over 89,343 Deaths to AIDS and Did Nothing

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Walt Odets on the First Years of the AIDS Epidemic and the Stigmatization of Gay Men

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A Harvard Kennedy School professor published a much-shorter Mueller report.

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Navigating the Dark Web of <br>American Racism

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Alexandra Minna Stern on the Foundational Texts of White Nationalism

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