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Kelefa Sanneh: What Actually is “Country Music”?

Kelefa Sanneh: What Actually is “Country Music”?

On the Genre’s Shifting Identities

By Kelefa Sanneh | October 8, 2021

Community and Care: On Squirrel Hill and the Tree of Life Shooting

Community and Care: On Squirrel Hill and the Tree of Life Shooting

Mark Oppenheimer Discusses the History of His Ancestral Town and the Aftermath of the 2018 Shooting

By Mark Oppenheimer | October 8, 2021

Matthew Pearl on the Kidnap and Rescue That Shaped America

Matthew Pearl on the Kidnap and Rescue That Shaped America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 8, 2021

The Heavy History of Names: On Political Forgetting and Erasure in India

The Heavy History of Names: On Political Forgetting and Erasure in India

From This Year's Cundill History Prize Shortlisted Title The Loss of Hindustan by Manan Ahmed Asif

By Manan Ahmed Asif | October 8, 2021

Cadwell Turnbull on the Social Realities Behind Speculative Fiction

Cadwell Turnbull on the Social Realities Behind Speculative Fiction

In Conversation with Rob Wolf on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | October 8, 2021

Instead of acting like Kidney Person, be more like these 19th-century literary haters.

Instead of acting like Kidney Person, be more like these 19th-century literary haters.

By Walker Caplan | October 7, 2021

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Colin Kaepernick on the Link Between Abolition and Black Liberation

By Colin Kaepernick | October 7, 2021

Evan Osnos on Collective Intervention and Moments of Social Transition

By Just the Right Book | October 7, 2021

How the Word “Landscape” Helped Change Americans' Relationship to Nature

By Tyler Green | October 7, 2021

Peddlers, Bakers, Wool-Sorters: The Economic History of Women in Angoulême

Peddlers, Bakers, Wool-Sorters: The Economic History of Women in Angoulême

Emma Rothschild on Women’s Work in an-18th Century French Village

By Emma Rothschild | October 7, 2021

Elizabeth Wetmore and Kathryn Nuernberger on SB8, the History of Abortion, and <em>Roe v. Wade</em> in Danger

Elizabeth Wetmore and Kathryn Nuernberger on SB8, the History of Abortion, and Roe v. Wade in Danger

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 7, 2021

On the mysterious obscenity scribbled on John Steinbeck’s <em>Grapes of Wrath</em> manuscript.

On the mysterious obscenity scribbled on John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath manuscript.

By Walker Caplan | October 5, 2021

Astronomers have determined the exact hour that Mary Shelley thought of <em>Frankenstein</em>.

Astronomers have determined the exact hour that Mary Shelley thought of Frankenstein.

By Emily Temple | October 5, 2021

How the Killing of George Floyd Reflects America's Repeated History of Racism and Police Brutality

How the Killing of George Floyd Reflects America's Repeated History of Racism and Police Brutality

Curtis Bunn on the Black Lives Matter Movement, the Watts Riots, and the City as Powder Keg

By Curtis Bunn | October 5, 2021

On Constancia de la Mora and the Plight of Writers in Exile

On Constancia de la Mora and the Plight of Writers in Exile

Soledad Fox Maura on Rediscovering the Fascinating Story of Her Distant Relative

By Soledad Fox Maura | October 4, 2021

Jack Dash and Luke Swenson on Ecologies that Resist Borders

Jack Dash and Luke Swenson on Ecologies that Resist Borders

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | October 4, 2021

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