• Politics

    Women's Bodies

    Of Womb-Furie, Hysteria, and Other Misnomers of the Feminine Condition

    By Clare Beams  February 11, 2020
    Revolutions

    A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

    By Dina Nayeri  February 11, 2020
    The Hub

    How not to separate your church from your state: Tennessee seeks to make Bible “state book.”

    By Jonny Diamond  February 10, 2020
    Feminism

    Vivian Gornick and the Revolution That Won’t End

    By John Freeman  February 10, 2020
    Working Class Literature

    Poverty, Anxiety, and Gender in Scottish Working-Class Literature

    By Douglas Stuart  February 10, 2020
    Desire

    The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

    By Jenn Shapland  February 10, 2020
    The Hub

    A new law aimed at the gig economy is affecting writers. Lawmakers are trying to change it.

    By Corinne Segal  February 7, 2020
    Criticism

    Brilliance and Blind Spots:
    Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 7, 2020
    First Nations Writers

    Richard Wagamese on Anti-Native Racism and Deciding to Fight Back

    By Richard Wagamese  February 7, 2020
    American Nazis

    How Nazism’s Rise in Europe Spurred Anti-Semitic Movements in the US

    By Donna Rifkind  February 7, 2020
    Ethical Eating

    Some Very Doable Steps Toward a Plant-Based Kitchen

    By Nil Zacharias and Gene Stone  February 7, 2020
    Impeachment

    Even the Founding Fathers Couldn’t Envision a President Like Trump

    By Liesl Schillinger  February 6, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    Sylvia Ann Hewlett on #MeToo in the Corporate World

    By Just the Right Book   February 6, 2020
    Police Violence

    To Understand America’s Fear-Driven Response to Terrorism, Look to Chicago

    By Laurence Ralph  February 6, 2020
    Civil Rights

    Julian Bond Unified the Language of Black and Queer Civil Rights

    By Michael G. Long  February 5, 2020
    The Hub

    A light in the darkness: Garth Greenwell live-tweeted the Iowa Caucuses and it was delightful.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 4, 2020
    News and Culture

    Dahlia Lithwick and Moira Donegan: What Happens When Women
    Tell the Truth

    By Literary Hub  February 4, 2020
    News and Culture

    Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

    By Clement Knox  February 4, 2020
    The Hub

    Literary agents representing resistance superhero “Anonymous” go on record refuting scurrilous rumors.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 3, 2020
    Publishing

    On My Dark Vanessa and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

    By Red Newsom  February 3, 2020
    The Nuclear Age

    How We Learned to Start Fearing the Bomb, Again

    By Fred M. Kaplan  January 31, 2020
    Freedom of the Press

    Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for ‘Unspecified Reasons’

    By Kaya Genç  January 31, 2020
    What to Read

    14 Books You Should Read
    in February

    By Literary Hub  January 31, 2020
    Income Inequality

    It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

    By Samuel Freedman  January 30, 2020
    WWII

    The Professor Who Smuggled Intellectuals Out of
    Nazi-Occupied France

    By Justus Rosenberg  January 30, 2020
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