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How Richard Wright’s <em>Native Son</em> Eventually Made It to the Big Screen

How Richard Wright’s Native Son Eventually Made It to the Big Screen

Charlene Regester on the Fraught Relationship Between Early Black Writers and the American Film Industry

By Charlene Regester | February 29, 2024

Phillipa Gregory on How the Norman Invasion Brought Patriarchy to England

Phillipa Gregory on How the Norman Invasion Brought Patriarchy to England

“There are more penises than English women in the Bayeux Tapestry.”

By Philippa Gregory | February 28, 2024

Uncovering the Incredible Story of a Romance Between Two Prisoners in Auschwitz

Uncovering the Incredible Story of a Romance Between Two Prisoners in Auschwitz

Keren Blankfeld on Researching a Gripping Love Story and the Challenges of Writing About Someone Who Isn't There

By Keren Blankfeld | February 28, 2024

From the Reservation to the River: On the Complexities of Writing About a Native Childhood

From the Reservation to the River: On the Complexities of Writing About a Native Childhood

Deborah Taffa on Acknowledging America’s Genocide of Native People

By Deborah Taffa | February 28, 2024

A Vanishing World: On Europe’s Disappearing Peasantry

A Vanishing World: On Europe’s Disappearing Peasantry

Patrick Joyce Explores the Social and Cultural Transformation of Rural Life

By Patrick Joyce | February 28, 2024

The Sweetness at the Core: Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the Positive, Humanizing Power of Fiction

The Sweetness at the Core: Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the Positive, Humanizing Power of Fiction

Considering the Central Role of Community and Solidarity in Stories of Marginalization

By Maurice Carlos Ruffin | February 27, 2024

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The Man Who Remembered Everything—and Thought It Was Normal

By Charan Ranganath | February 26, 2024

Blackness Beyond America: Shayla Lawson on Global Conceptions of Black Identity

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Visual Disposability: How Photographic Practice Dehumanizes Black Bodies

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The Ever-Present Unseeable Terror: On Millennia of Human-Shark Relations

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Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery Consider Our Fraught Coexistence With the Most Feared of Marine Monsters

By Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery | February 23, 2024

When Your Childhood Belongs to Everyone: Growing Up in a Downtown Manhattan That Changed Forever on 9/11

When Your Childhood Belongs to Everyone: Growing Up in a Downtown Manhattan That Changed Forever on 9/11

Emma Dries on Loft Life Above the Fulton Fish Market and the Day That Everything Changed

By Emma Dries | February 22, 2024

What American Divorces Tell Us About American Marriages

What American Divorces Tell Us About American Marriages

Lyz Lenz on the Inseparable Histories of Matrimony and Disunion in the United States

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Debate Me! Why Writers Should Argue With Themselves

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Terry Golway on the Importance of Exploring Opposing Ideas On and Off the Page

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UFO, or Unidentified Female Observer: Kirsten Bakis on the Undersung Life of Anna Fort

UFO, or Unidentified Female Observer: Kirsten Bakis on the Undersung Life of Anna Fort

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Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

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