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    The PEN Awards and World Voices Festival Are on the Brink of Collapse

    "We cannot, in good faith, align with an organization that has shown such blatant disregard of our collective values."

     
    By Dan Sheehan  April 17, 2024
    Journalism

    What Christiane Amanpour—and the Rest of Us—Can Learn From Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

    By Steven W. Thrasher  April 16, 2024
    Palestine

    Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

    By Ben Ehrenreich  April 15, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    By Alissa Quart  April 15, 2024
    Irish History

    How Ordinary Irish Citizens Got Caught Up in the Violence of the Troubles

    By Henry Hemming  April 15, 2024
    Geopolitics

    Considering the Lessons of the Cold War for the Next Great Power Rivalry

    By Adam E. Casey  April 15, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Gaza

    Why I’m Using My PEN Nomination to Protest for Palestine

    By Sarah Cypher  April 12, 2024
    Queer Literature

    More Than “Friendless” or “Fallen…” Giving Voice to the Women Who Misbehaved in History

    By Kelly E. Hill  April 12, 2024
    The Hub

    Shop with solidarity at these unionized (and unionizing) stores and publishers.

    By James Folta  April 11, 2024
    Cultural History

    How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

    Adam Kuper on Gustav Klemm and the Fraught History of Cultural Institutions in Europe

    By Adam Kuper  April 17, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Dev Patel on Destruction and Growth

    By Talk Easy  April 10, 2024
    Gaza

    Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide

    By Philip Metres  April 9, 2024
    The Hub

    Meta considered buying Simon & Schuster to build its AI.

    By James Folta  April 8, 2024
    Feminism

    Death and The Maiden: What Rewatching The OC Can Teach Us Now

    Kelly Marie Coyne on Society’s Lethal Obsession With the White Starlet

    By Kelly Marie Coyne  April 5, 2024
    Gaza

    How Do We Celebrate Arab American Heritage Month During a Genocide?

    By Sahar Mustafah  April 4, 2024
    Feminism

    Unsolvable Puzzles: Anna Shechtman on the Feminist Psychology Behind Crosswords

    By Hannah Zeavin  April 4, 2024
    Censorship

    How Texas Prisons Regulate Women’s Knowledge Behind Bars

    By Kwaneta Harris  April 4, 2024
    Jewish American Literature

    The Language of American Jewishness: On Delmore Schwartz, Grace Paley, and the Duties of Freedom

    “I want American Jews to count ourselves in; to include ourselves in the bad parts of American history as part of building the good.”

    By Lily Meyer  April 2, 2024
    The Hub

    Read translator Nada Hammad’s love letter to Gaza.

    By Nada Hammad  March 28, 2024
    Photography

    The Chronicler of Asian America: Hua Hsu on Photographer and Activist Corky Lee

    By Hua Hsu  March 28, 2024
    Pornography

    How Candida Royalle Redefined the Role of Women in Porn

    By Jane Kamensky  March 27, 2024
    Gaza

    The Social Media Project Humanizing Palestinians Killed By Israel,
    One Person at a Time

    Steven W. Thrasher Talks with The Martyrs of Gaza

    By Steven W. Thrasher  March 25, 2024
    Literary Adaptations

    Why a New Adaptation of The Master and Margarita is Setting Russian Society Aflame

    By Cameron Manley  March 19, 2024
    Spies

    Writer, Woman, Playwright, Spy: How Espionage Influenced Aphra Behn’s Writing

    By Valorie Castellanos Clark  March 18, 2024
    The Hub

    An open letter from North American scholars condemns the “scholasticide” in Gaza.

    By Brittany Allen  April 10, 2024
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