• Politics

    Pride

    37 Drag Race Contestants (and RuPaul) on Drag as an Art Form and the Show’s Legacy

    “What’s brilliant about drag is that it is actually the truth of who we all are.”

     
    By Maria Elena Fernandez  June 1, 2023
    Pride

    What Banned Books Can Teach Us: Building an LGBTQ Picture Book Library for Pride 

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  June 1, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Cancel Club: Jane Roper on Online Shame, Responsibility, and Fame

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 1, 2023
    The Maris Review

    From a Toxic Set of Norms: Maureen Ryan on Why We Ought to Burn It Down

    By The Maris Review  June 1, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    Hope and Survival: Jeff Hobbs on the Juvenile Justice System

    By Just the Right Book   June 1, 2023
    Keen On

    David Samson on Making Tribes and Tribalism Work in the 21st century

    By Keen On  June 1, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Trans History

    How to Brainwash Yourself: Grace Lavery on the Devices of Trans Identity in Literature

    By Grace Lavery  May 31, 2023
    Motherhood

    No Alternatives: On (Not) Choosing to Be a Mother in Rural America

    By Monica Potts  May 31, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Boyce Upholt: Legal Protections for the Saguaro Cactus and Recognizing the Dignity of All Life

    By Emergence Magazine  May 30, 2023
    Labor

    Line for (Picket) Line: How Authors Are Standing With the WGA

    Alexis Gunderson on the Power of Writerly Solidarity

    By Alexis Gunderson  June 1, 2023
    What to Watch

    Finding the Humor in Watergate: Co-Author Matthew Krogh on the White House Plumbers Adaptation

    By Matthew Krogh  May 25, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Rising from the Ashes: Felix Salmon on the Debt Ceiling Crisis and the Surprising Resilience of the COVID Economy

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 25, 2023
    Summer reading

    25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  May 25, 2023
    China

    On Xi Jinping’s Purges and the Contradictions of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

    “Too much fear can paralyze the bureaucracy.”

    By Chun Han Wong  May 24, 2023
    The Hub

    Just a few hateful parents are responsible for most of the book challenges in America.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 23, 2023
    European History

    Why the Idea of Western Civilization is More Myth Than History

    By Naoíse Mac Sweeney  May 23, 2023
    Education

    How Women and Girls Struggle to Pursue Their Interest In Science

    By Melissa L. Sevigny  May 23, 2023
    First Draft

    “It Can’t Be Political Propaganda, but it is Political.” Curtis Sittenfeld on Crafting a Feminist Voice in Fiction

    In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 22, 2023
    Otherppl

    Anne Elizabeth Moore on Finding Minor Moments That Build a Picture of the World

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 22, 2023
    The Hub

    Hong Kong neck-and-neck with Florida in bookbanning competition.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 18, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Stakes of the Writers’ Strike: Benjamin Percy on the WGA Walkout, Streaming, and the Survival of Screenwriting

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 18, 2023
    Utopias

    Just on the Horizon: Nine Utopian Books to Deprogram Our Brains

    Kristen R. Ghodsee Recommends Thomas More, Aldus Huxley, and More

    By Kristen R. Ghodsee  May 17, 2023
    Ukraine

    Beyond Metaphor: Inside the First Month of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

    By Serhiy Zhadan, Reilly Costigan‑Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler  May 17, 2023
    Keen On

    Stephen Vladeck on how the Supreme Court is Using Stealth Rulings to Undermine the American Republic

    By Keen On  May 17, 2023
    Sudan

    To Understand a Country: 8 Immersive Novels About Sudan

    By Bhakti Shringarpure  May 25, 2023
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