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How Do We Keep Writing When They are Killing Poets?

How Do We Keep Writing When They are Killing Poets?

Sayantani DasGupta Writers on Creating in a Time of Dread

By Sayantani DasGupta | February 24, 2026

Among the Fascists and the Nazis: How Two Women Journalists Survived the Chaos of 1930s Europe

Among the Fascists and the Nazis: How Two Women Journalists Survived the Chaos of 1930s Europe

Julia Cooke on Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles

By Julia Cooke | February 24, 2026

Writing While the Alphabet Burns: Ukrainian Literature to Help Understand the Ongoing War

Writing While the Alphabet Burns: Ukrainian Literature to Help Understand the Ongoing War

Introducing a New Critical Series For the Curious Reader

By Alex Averbuch | February 24, 2026

Who Deserves to Be a Citizen?

Who Deserves to Be a Citizen?

Daisy Hernández on the Post-9/11 Obsession with Birthright Citizenship

By Daisy Hernández | February 24, 2026

James Baldwin‘s Lessons For Black Gay Rights Activists

James Baldwin‘s Lessons For Black Gay Rights Activists

C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost on How History Bestowed an Identity on Baldwin that He Never Claimed Himself

By C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost | February 24, 2026

On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare

On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare

Eunsong Kim Considers the Relationship Between Art and Capitalism

By Eunsong Kim | February 23, 2026

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