• Politics

    Identity

    On Babar: Model of Integration or Crumbling Myth?

    By Faїza Guène and Sarah Ardizzone  October 4, 2021
    Apartheid

    The Complex Freedom of Creating Art as a Black Woman in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    By Colleen van Niekerk  October 4, 2021
    Pirates

    On the Ebb and Flow of 21st-Century Maritime Piracy

    By Bruce Jones  October 1, 2021
    The Hub

    Margaret Atwood, Sandra Cisneros, and more call for the release of three imprisoned Iranian writers.

    By Walker Caplan  September 30, 2021
    Citizenship

    Finding the Hidden Story of America in the 2020 Census

    By Benjamin Morris  September 30, 2021
    New in Nonfiction

    New and Noteworthy Nonfiction to Read This October

    By Literary Hub  September 30, 2021
    #MeToo

    The Credibility Discount: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

    By Deborah Tuerkheimer  September 30, 2021
    Keen On

    Katharine Hayhoe on Having a New Conversation About Climate Change

    By Keen On  September 30, 2021
    The Hub

    Everything you need to know about the controversy over Obama’s presidential library.

    By Walker Caplan  September 29, 2021
    Rape Culture

    How the Culture of the University Covers Up Abuse

    By Sara Ahmed  September 29, 2021
    Anne-Marie Slaughter

    Anne-Marie Slaughter on Radical Honesty as a Key to Growth

    By Keen On  September 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Bookseller of Kabul vows to stay open despite only two customers since the rise of the Taliban.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 28, 2021
    War

    The New Weapons of War: Disinformation, Economic Coercion, and Online Disruption

    By Seth G. Jones  September 28, 2021
    Keen On

    Joseph Weisberg on Russia and America, the Very Best of Enemies

    By Keen On  September 28, 2021
    Keen On

    Kristin Henning on the Foundations of Racist Policing in America

    By Keen On  September 28, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics

    By Book Marks  September 28, 2021
    Fascism

    Ezra Pound’s Unrepentant Ties With Fascist Italy

    By Lauren Arrington  September 27, 2021
    Cities

    Safety and the City: Why Women Have Never Relied on the Police for Protection

    By Leslie Kern  September 27, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Climate Change is Here… So How Do We Adapt?

    By Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani  September 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Sigh: Kansas City parents are protesting a library over a children’s book about puberty.

    By Walker Caplan  September 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Oh god: nonsensical conservative polemic American Marxism has sold a million copies.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 23, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Bullshit Saviors: Helen Benedict and Nadia Hashimi on Depictions of the American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 23, 2021
    Drugs

    Reefer Madness: How Did We End Up with the Lazy Stoner Stereotype?

    By Josiah Hesse  September 23, 2021
    Keen On

    Connor Towne O’Neill on the Ugly Legacy of White Supremacy

    By Keen On  September 23, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Mansoor Adayfi and Antonio Aiello on Reckoning With and Understanding Guantánamo

    By The Virtual Book Channel  September 23, 2021
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