• Features

    Mental health

    The Legal Fight That Ended the Unjust Confinement of Mental Health Patients

    By Ayelet Waldman  January 21, 2020
    First Draft

    Isabel Allende: ‘Few People Allow Themselves to Be Changed By Books’

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 21, 2020
    Emergence Magazine Podcast

    On the Voices of Birds and the Language of Belonging

    By Emergence Magazine  January 21, 2020
    Poem

    “self-portrait as ’90s R&B video”

    By Danez Smith  January 21, 2020
    Post-Soviet Travel

    Post-Soviet Travel on the Turkmen-­Kazakh Border

    By Erika Fatland  January 21, 2020
    Storybound

    Adelle Waldman Performs a Section of Her Novel The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

    By Storybound   January 21, 2020
    LIC Reading Series

    LIC Reading Series Podcast: Chaya Babu, YZ Chin, Bridgett Davis

    By LIC Reading Series  January 21, 2020
    Sports

    The War on Poverty Changed a Young George Foreman’s Life

    By Andrew R.M. Smith  January 17, 2020
    European History

    The Question Haunting the Hungarian People: “What Would You Have Done?”

    By Rory MacLean  January 17, 2020
    Poets

    The Enigma of Delmore Schwartz, the Luminous Poet Who Fell From Grace

    By Ben Mazer  January 17, 2020
    Feminism

    Amber Tamblyn on a Woman’s Right to Choose… From More Than Just One Woman Candidate

    By Amber Tamblyn  January 17, 2020
    Immigration

    When It Comes to Immigration, Political Centrism is Useless

    By Daniel Denvir  January 17, 2020
    Social Expectations

    Sarah Knight on How to Just F*cking Say No

    By Sarah Knight  January 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    Christopher Brown on Serving on the Inspiration Behind Rule of Capture

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Erin Morgenstern on How a Love of Video Games Inspires Her Writing

    By The Literary Life  January 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    Katherine Kayne on the Strong Women of Hawaii’s Painful History

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
    New Books Network

    K Chess: Imagining a Radically Different 20th Century That Might Have Been

    By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
    Lit Hub Recommends

    Lit Hub Recommends: Brokeback Mountain, Easy, and John Mulaney

    By Literary Hub  January 17, 2020
    In Conversation

    Talking Poetry and Porn with Garth Greenwell in a West Village Bar

    By Brian Gresko  January 16, 2020
    In Translation

    The Art of War is Actually a Manual on How to Avoid It

    By Michael Nylan  January 16, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    Gail Collins on the Adventures of Older Women in American History

    By Just the Right Book   January 16, 2020
    American History

    On John Brown and the Rise of the Radical Republican Abolitionists

    By LeeAnna Keith  January 16, 2020
    Social Media

    Dealing with ‘Friendship Overload’ in the Age of
    Social Media

    By Victoria Turk  January 16, 2020
    Climate Justice

    Indigenous Forest Defenders Around the World Are Dying Anonymous Deaths

    By Rob Nixon  January 16, 2020
    American Identity

    John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison’s Two Inviolable Identities

    By John F. Callahan  January 16, 2020
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