• Features

    War

    The Arsenal of Imperialism: How Arbitrary Borders Make Unequal People

    By Suchitra Vijayan  May 20, 2021
    Classics

    How Ancient Tales Became a Rallying Cry for Modern Women

    By Phoebe Wynne  May 20, 2021
    Keen On

    Barrett Swanson on the Search for Reality in a “Post-Truth” America

    By Keen On  May 20, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Carolin Benack and Sanjena Sathian on the Fiction of the Economy and the Dangerous Appeal of Excess

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 20, 2021
    American History

    The “Mystic Inklings” and Savvy Business Acumen of Victoria Woodhull

    By Emily Midorikawa  May 20, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Elizabeth McCracken on Placing Her Characters in New Settings

    By The Maris Review  May 20, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    Takeover by Noah Feldman and Lidia Jean Kott, Read by Noah Feldman

    By Behind the Mic   May 20, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Laurie Frankel on the Way That Girls Superhero

    By Book Dreams  May 20, 2021
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Katja Hoyer on Hitler’s Campaign for Office

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   May 20, 2021
    Thresholds

    C Pam Zhang on the Psychic Idea of Home

    By Thresholds   May 19, 2021
    Literary History

    The Time I Watched Norman Mailer Try to Fight G. Gordon Liddy in the Street

    By James Grady  May 19, 2021
    The Jazz Age

    The Half-Truths of Harrison Post: Moneyed Magnate or Jazz Age Grifter?

    By Liz Brown  May 19, 2021
    Misfits

    Outsiders, Eccentrics, and Misfits: A Reading List

    By Claire Fuller  May 19, 2021
    Pandemics

    Jim Shepard: When Your Novel Veers a Little Too Close to Grim Reality

    By Jim Shepard  May 19, 2021
    Politics

    An Argument for Literature as Care Work

    By Alexandra Kingston-Reese  May 19, 2021
    The Writing Life

    “I Wanted to Be on Fire.” On the Connection Between Art and Self-Destruction

    By Bridget Collins  May 19, 2021
    Dating

    Swipe Right for Loneliness: On the Gamification of Dating Apps

    By Nancy Jo Sales  May 19, 2021
    Grief

    Letting Go of Silence in the Wake of Miscarriage

    By Barbara Becker  May 19, 2021
    Reading Women

    T Kira Madden on Centering Pacific Island Voices

    By Reading Women  May 19, 2021
    Otherppl with Brad Listi

    Courtney Zoffness on the One Characteristic That Writers Share

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 19, 2021
    Black History

    On the Origins of White Europeans’ Bigoted Fascination with Skin Color and Racial Hierarchy

    By Olivette Otele  May 19, 2021
    Keen On

    Do Our Minds Have Immune Systems to Protect Us from Infectious Ideas?

    By Keen On  May 19, 2021
    The Literary Salon

    Krystal Sutherland Reads from Her Novel House of Hollow

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  May 19, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books in Translation You May Have Missed in April

    By Bethanne Patrick  May 19, 2021
    NewberyTart

    Why Julia Franks Created a (Much-Needed) Children’s Literacy App

    By NewberyTart   May 19, 2021
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