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

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

Charles Hecker Recommends Joshua Yaffa, Svetlana Alexievich, David Remnick, and More

By Charles Hecker | March 4, 2025

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

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

Featuring Titles by Russell Shorto, Ben Ratliff, Hannah Selinger, and More

By Literary Hub | February 28, 2025

The Rise of Ronald Reagan, a Product of California

The Rise of Ronald Reagan, a Product of California

Michael Hiltzik on the Early Career of the Actor-Cum-Politician Who Changed America

By Michael Hiltzik | February 26, 2025

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

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

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

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

Dan Sheehan Talks to the Author of “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”

By Dan Sheehan | February 25, 2025

Book ban boomerang: VP Vance’s book is caught up in military school

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

By James Folta | February 24, 2025

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George Orwell’s Doublethink: How Much Can—Or Should—We Know About Our Literary Idols?

By Anna Funder | February 24, 2025

How to write a funny book about American immigration.

By James Folta | February 21, 2025

How Two of America’s Biggest Columnists Reacted to the Assassination of Malcolm X

By Ted Hamm | February 21, 2025

Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities

Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities

“The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.”

By Judith Butler | February 20, 2025

How Democracy Supporters Can Still Beat Back the Rising Tide of Fascism

How Democracy Supporters Can Still Beat Back the Rising Tide of Fascism

Katherine Stewart on the Internal Contradictions of the Current American Antidemocratic Movement

By Katherine Stewart | February 20, 2025

If Trump can’t kill you, he wants to hurt you.

If Trump can’t kill you, he wants to hurt you.

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In Purging Language About Trans People, Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Trying to Purge the People Themselves

In Purging Language About Trans People, Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Trying to Purge the People Themselves

Gabrielle Bellot on the Radical Power of Words As Weapons

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 19, 2025

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

The Author of “Counterculture” in Conversation with Aaron Robertson

By Aaron Robertson | February 19, 2025

Wife, Mother, Labor Organizer: On the Hidden Activist Life of Betty Friedan

Wife, Mother, Labor Organizer: On the Hidden Activist Life of Betty Friedan

Haley Mlotek Explores the Tension Between the Political and the Personal For the Author of “The Feminine Mystique”

By Haley Mlotek | February 18, 2025

How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

Leaning Into the Death of Lean-In Feminism and Its Many Resurrections in Our Conflicted Zeitgeist

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