• Politics

    The Hub

    Today, Tsitsi Dangarembga was awarded the 2021 PEN Award for Freedom of Expression.

    By Rasheeda Saka  January 13, 2021
    Insurrections

    Rebecca Solnit on the Empty Violence of the Underachievers’ Coup

    By Rebecca Solnit  January 13, 2021
    Memoir

    Gabriel Byrne Talks Memory, Loneliness and More With Karl Geary

    By Karl Geary  January 13, 2021
    World War II

    Bombs and Books: On Graham Greene’s Life During
    World War II

    By Richard Greene  January 13, 2021
    American History

    On Abraham Lincoln’s Convoluted Plan For the Abolition of Slavery

    By James Oakes  January 13, 2021
    Reported Memoirs

    Trouble for Your Thoughts: On Reported Creative Nonfiction

    By Kenneth R. Rosen  January 13, 2021
    Boredom

    On the Uses of Boredom: Philosophical, Scientific, Literary

    By Martha Cooley  January 13, 2021
    News and Culture

    What Joe Biden Can Learn from Machiavelli After the Capitol Raid

    By Keen On  January 13, 2021
    Book Origins

    On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer

    By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu  January 13, 2021
    The Hub

    After protest Powell’s won’t shelve right wing performance artist Andy Ngo’s conspiracy fanfic.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 12, 2021
    Insurrections

    American Legacy: When White Supremacist Mobs Threaten Democracy

    By David Zucchino  January 12, 2021
    News and Culture

    Who Gets to Tell the Story of
    the Midwest?

    By Amanda Page  January 12, 2021
    On Race

    On Navigating the Intricacies of Race and the Violence of Antiblackness in America

    By Nadia Owusu  January 12, 2021
    Personal History

    Am I Argentine? On Identity, Tradition and Finding Ties to One’s Homeland

    By Daniel Loedel  January 12, 2021
    In Conversation

    Koa Beck on What ‘Feminist’ Settings Are Too Often Missing

    By Corinne Segal  January 12, 2021
    Film History

    Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Genius
    of Ingmar Bergman

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard  January 11, 2021
    Keen On

    How Do We Fix America?

    By Keen On  January 11, 2021
    Trauma

    The Color Purple and the Language of Healing from Trauma

    By Salamishah Tillet  January 11, 2021
    Insurrections

    From Al Qaeda to QAnon: Rebecca Solnit on the Inside Job at the Capitol

    By Rebecca Solnit  January 9, 2021
    The Hub

    A few literary opinions Jon Ossoff probably has and should definitely tweet about.

    By Walker Caplan  January 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Josh Hawley, after inciting a violent, bloody insurrection, has his book canceled.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 8, 2021
    Dictators

    The Madness of King Trump: On Being Unfit to Serve

    By Chaya Bhuvaneswar  January 8, 2021
    Film and TV

    Francisco Goldman on Guatemalan Justice, Identity, and The Art of Political Murder

    By Idra Novey  January 8, 2021
    Teaching

    How Teachers Can Foster a Space of Curiosity

    By Nick Ripatrazone  January 8, 2021
    Community

    The Deep Connection of West Virginia’s Indian Community

    By Neema Avashia  January 8, 2021
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