How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers)

How the Rest of the World Sees America (Through the Eyes of Its Writers)

Madeleine Schwartz Recommends Bruna Dantas Lobato, Uwem Akpan, Maeve Brennan, and More

By Madeleine Schwartz | June 15, 2026

American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present

American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present

Dominic Erdozain on the Contradictions at the Heart of Thomas Jefferson’s United States

By Dominic Erdozain | June 15, 2026

This Week in Literary History: Dante Alighieri is Named Prior of Florence

This Week in Literary History: Dante Alighieri is Named Prior of Florence

(Shortly Before Being Exiled from the City for Life)

By Literary Hub | June 15, 2026

How to Refute an Antivaxxer (And Why RFK Jr. is a Danger to Us All)

How to Refute an Antivaxxer (And Why RFK Jr. is a Danger to Us All)

Thomas Levenson Takes on Some Common Arguments Against Immunization

By Thomas Levenson | June 11, 2026

Introducing Lost Kite Editions, the Indie Press Bringing “Insurgent” Work to Minneapolis.

Introducing Lost Kite Editions, the Indie Press Bringing “Insurgent” Work to Minneapolis.

“The people most often kept outside publishing’s institutions should help shape its future.”

By Brittany Allen | June 11, 2026

Grief, Rage, and Restraint: Zinzi Clemmons on Telling Her Own Story

Grief, Rage, and Restraint: Zinzi Clemmons on Telling Her Own Story

Myriam Gurba in Conversation with the Author of Freedom: Essays

By Myriam Gurba | June 9, 2026

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“Sneaking the Scraps Out the Back Door.” On Black Feminist Traditions of Memory Keeping

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Memoirs of a Black Cop: Reading Zohran Mamdani’s Newly Appointed Sheriff, Edwin Raymond 

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On the Workplace Accident That Changed Amazon Union-Leader Chris Smalls’s Life

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How the Politics of Powerlessness Prevents Real Change

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Yotam Marom on the Ways Activists Can Better Utilize Their Collective Strength

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Marjane Satrapi, author of <em> Persepolis, </em> has died at 58.

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The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought

The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought

Tom Zoellner on the Antebellum Precedent of Trump-Era Censorship

By Tom Zoellner | June 3, 2026

Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in June

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From Natural Histories of American Megafauna to Domestic Memoirs of Parenting While Trans, This Month Has Something For Everyone

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The Digital Economy is Destroying Our Lives and Our Planet—and AI is Only Going to Make It Worse

The Digital Economy is Destroying Our Lives and Our Planet—and AI is Only Going to Make It Worse

Matthew Cole Raises the Alarm

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How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms

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Odd Arne Westad on the Lessons We Haven't Learned From the Devastation of the Great War

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On Indigenous Rebellion as a Precursor to the American Revolution

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Sarah M.S. Pearsall Discusses the Bloody History of Pontiac‘s War

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