Why is Serious Nonfiction in the US Taken More Seriously Than in the UK?

Why is Serious Nonfiction in the US Taken More Seriously Than in the UK?

Sam Leith Has Some Serious Ideas

By Sam Leith | May 12, 2023

Readings from the 2022 PEN America Prison Writing Awards Anthology

Readings from the 2022 PEN America Prison Writing Awards Anthology

This Week on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | May 12, 2023

To Heal the Planet, We Must Heal Ourselves: Ben Okri Proposes New Visions For Our Collective Future

To Heal the Planet, We Must Heal Ourselves: Ben Okri Proposes New Visions For Our Collective Future

“The climate crisis is not really about the climate. It’s about us.”

By Ben Okri | May 11, 2023

The East Palestine Train Derailment and Your Health: Kerri Arsenault on the Pervasive and Ongoing Risks of Dioxin

The East Palestine Train Derailment and Your Health: Kerri Arsenault on the Pervasive and Ongoing Risks of Dioxin

Kerri Arsenault in Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 11, 2023

A Kind of Mutuality: Christina Sharpe on the Importance of Regard

A Kind of Mutuality: Christina Sharpe on the Importance of Regard

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | May 11, 2023

How Nelson Mandela Became a Pop-Cultural Icon Through Music

How Nelson Mandela Became a Pop-Cultural Icon Through Music

Jonny Steinberg on Jerry Dammers and How a Famous Concert in the 1980s Brought Mandela New Fame

By Jonny Steinberg | May 11, 2023

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Michael Walzer on What Progressives Can Learn From Liberal Nationalists Like Thomas Jefferson and Giuseppe Mazzini

By Keen On | May 11, 2023

Henry Mance on What It Means to Be a Boy Online in 2023

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Viduy, or, Listening to Palestinians With My Mother

By Shalom Auslander | May 8, 2023

Carl Delfeld on Republicans’ Ultimate Existential Challenge: Reaching Non-Aligned Voters

Carl Delfeld on Republicans’ Ultimate Existential Challenge: Reaching Non-Aligned Voters

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 8, 2023

This Alaska bookstore in Sarah Palin’s hometown isn’t backing down about its drag story time.

This Alaska bookstore in Sarah Palin’s hometown isn’t backing down about its drag story time.

By Jonny Diamond | May 4, 2023

B.J. Best, Andrew Ervin, and Brittney Morris on Video Games, Storytelling, and the Importance of Play

B.J. Best, Andrew Ervin, and Brittney Morris on Video Games, Storytelling, and the Importance of Play

B.J. Best, Andrew Ervin, and Brittney Morris in Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 4, 2023

Brendan Ballou on Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage and Plunder the United States

Brendan Ballou on Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage and Plunder the United States

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 4, 2023

On Shuttered Libraries, Censorship, the Threat of Book Bans

On Shuttered Libraries, Censorship, the Threat of Book Bans

Mark Dunn Mulls Considers What His 2001 Novel Ella Minnow Pea Can Teach Us About Today

By Mark Dunn | May 4, 2023

Michael Lind Explains How the Suppression of Wages and Unions is Destroying America

Michael Lind Explains How the Suppression of Wages and Unions is Destroying America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 4, 2023

How John Blake’s Personal Story Can Help Us Understand the Problem of Race in America

How John Blake’s Personal Story Can Help Us Understand the Problem of Race in America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 3, 2023

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