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    Keen On

    How Good Debate Can Save Democracy

    By Keen On  June 3, 2022
    Keen On

    Julie Lythcott-Hains: How to Successfully Grow Up and Become an Adult

    By Keen On  June 3, 2022
    The Civil War

    How 19th-Century Gun-Makers Helped Preserve the Union

    By John Bainbridge, Jr.  June 3, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Kim Kelly on How to Fix the Working Conditions in Book Publishing

    By The Maris Review  June 2, 2022
    Poetry

    Messing With All of It: Poets Rodrigo Toscano and Sandra Simonds Talk Politics, Poetics, Work, and Class

    By Sandra Simonds and Rodrigo Toscano  June 2, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    “This is Such Bullshit.” Shelly Oria and Kristen Arnett on the Reproductive Rights Crisis

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 2, 2022
    Film History

    It’s a Man’s Art World: The Centuries-Long Struggle of the Leading Lady in Rocco and His Brothers

    By Laura Valenza  June 2, 2022
    Keen On

    How the Mothers of MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped America

    By Keen On  June 2, 2022
    Children's Literature

    On Domesticity and Memory in James Baldwin and Becky Suss

    By Peter L’Official  June 2, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 2, 2022
    Open Form

    In Praise of John Hughes, Patron Saint of Teenagers

    By Open Form  June 2, 2022
    White Supremacy

    How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

    By Philip Dray  June 2, 2022
    Black History

    How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

    By David Hackett Fischer  June 2, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Phil Klay: “Killing a Guy is Not the Same as Having a Coherent Military Policy.”

    By Book Dreams  June 2, 2022
    Motherhood

    On Jazmina Barrera’s Linea Nigra and the Untranslatable Experiences of Motherhood

    By Malwina Gudowska  June 2, 2022
    Mexican History

    “The Díaz Administration Is a Den of Thieves.” Political Activism in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico

    By Kelly Lytle Hernández  June 2, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Jean Hanff Korelitz on Being Allowed to Make Things Up

    By Literary Hub  June 2, 2022
    Drugs

    In the Opioid Epidemic Prosecutions Don’t Always Help Victims

    By Valena Beety  June 2, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Candice Iloh in Conversation with Ibi Zoboi

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 2, 2022
    Gender

    Julia Serano on the Ramifications of “Sissy-Shaming” for Kids of All Genders

    By Julia Serano  June 2, 2022
    Keen On

    What One American Learnt From Restoring His Family’s English Castle

    By Keen On  June 2, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Fathers Need to Talk Talk Talk To Their Daughters

    By Keen On  June 2, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    On Rupert Degas, Golden Voice Narrator

    By Behind the Mic   June 2, 2022
    Just the Right Book

    Senator Chris Murphy: How Do We Solve the Violence In America

    By Just the Right Book   June 2, 2022
    Film

    Why Sofia Coppola Wanted to Make the (Admittedly Obnoxious) Bling Ring

    By Hannah Strong  June 1, 2022
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