• Politics

    Vietnam

    How the Vietnam War Exposed America’s Military and Political Vulnerabilities

    James A. Warren on the Origins and Lasting Impact of a Generation-Defining Cold War Conflict

     
    By James A. Warren  March 14, 2025
    Dystopias

    Why We Fear Real-Life Dystopia but Love Dystopian Fiction

    By Laila Lalami  March 13, 2025
    Publishing

    Shilling Books While Rome Burns: Why Politicians Need to Focus on Their Day Jobs

    By Maris Kreizman  March 13, 2025
    Politics

    Stenographers of Empire: Where is the Moral Courage in the American Media?

    By Steven W. Thrasher  March 12, 2025
    Irish History

    From Philly to Derry: On the Americans Who Armed the IRA During The Troubles

    By Ali Watkins  March 11, 2025
    The Hub

    A Columbia professor’s message to his fellow Jewish faculty members.

    By James Schamus  March 10, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Soccer

    Liverpool Never Forgets: On the Legacy of the Hillsborough Disaster

    By Oliver Smith  March 10, 2025
    Banned Books

    Draw Me a Controversy: On the Banning of Beloved Children’s Book Author Eric Carle

    By Lisa Tolin  March 10, 2025
    The Hub

    The State Department pulled $1 million in funding for the Iowa International Writing Program.

    By James Folta  March 7, 2025
    Creative Nonfiction

    Truth, Power, Art: A Critical Manifesto on Creative Nonfiction

    Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold on the Urgency Writing Truth to Power

    By Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold  March 13, 2025
    Idiocracy

    What Is Donald Trump Doing? Three Theories for the Madness

    By Aron Solomon  March 7, 2025
    Ukraine

    Margaret Atwood on Victoria Amelina, Who Recorded the Lives of Ukrainian Women Under War

    By Margaret Atwood  March 6, 2025
    Ukraine

    You Cannot Go to Your Country: Victoria Amelina on the Start of War in Ukraine

    By Victoria Amelina  March 6, 2025
    On Poetry

    “Poetry Remains Indestructible.” On the Resilience of Art in the Face of Fascism

    Spencer Reece Considers the Life and Work of Jaime Gil de Biedma

    By Spencer Reece  March 6, 2025
    Gaza

    A War Zone Pediatrician on What Comes After the Horrors of a Gaza Emergency Room

    By Seema Jilani  March 5, 2025
    The Hub

    An architecture journal’s Palestine issue was abruptly shelved.

    By James Folta  March 4, 2025
    Journalism

    The US Has a Journalism Crisis: Here’s Why Writers Are Leaving the Profession in Droves

    By Brittany Allen  March 4, 2025
    Ukraine

    What Russia’s Violent History of Occupation Reveals About Its Ongoing War on Ukraine

    Sofi Oksanen on the Importance of Preserving Personal and Collective Memory in the Face of Imperialist Aggression

    By Sofi Oksanen  March 4, 2025
    Russia

    Invasions, Empires, Political Bromances: Five Nonfiction Books That Explain Modern Russia

    By Charles Hecker  March 4, 2025
    Nonfiction

    From Bowie to Baseball to Bitcoin: Ten Nonfiction Books to Check Out in March

    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2025
    Politics

    The Rise of Ronald Reagan, a Product of California

    By Michael Hiltzik  February 26, 2025
    Conspiracy theories

    Tracing America’s Obsession With Conspiracy Theories Back to Its Founding

    Andrew Lawler on the Revolutionary Roots of a Corrosive National Pastime

    By Andrew Lawler  February 25, 2025
    Gaza

    Omar El Akkad on Genocide, Complicit Liberals, and the Terrible Wrath of the West

    By Dan Sheehan  February 25, 2025
    The Hub

    Book ban boomerang: VP Vance’s book is caught up in military school “ideology” checks.

    By James Folta  February 24, 2025
    The Hub

    Three unionized Barnes & Nobles in NYC have ratified an historic first contract.

    By James Folta  March 7, 2025
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