How Much is Too Much? On Bearing Witness to Violence in the Digital Age

How Much is Too Much? On Bearing Witness to Violence in the Digital Age

Will Potter Considers the Psychological and Social Impact of the (Over) Saturation of Cruelty in the Contemporary Era

By Will Potter | July 7, 2025

What Are the Revolutionaries Reading? Activists Recommend Essential Texts

What Are the Revolutionaries Reading? Activists Recommend Essential Texts

Suzanne Cope Talks to Darlene Okpo, Jacob A.C. Remes, Julie Schweitert Colazzo and Steff Reed

By Suzanne Cope | July 3, 2025

How Houston’s Third Ward Became a Hub of Black Art, Culture, and Opportunity

How Houston’s Third Ward Became a Hub of Black Art, Culture, and Opportunity

Lauren O'Neill Butler on Shotgun Houses, Segregation, and the Art of Rick Lowe and John Biggers

By Lauren O'Neill Butler | July 2, 2025

On the Dehumanizing Impact of Deportation and Our Obligations to Each Other

On the Dehumanizing Impact of Deportation and Our Obligations to Each Other

Laurie Sheck Considers the Plight of Refugee Children

By Laurie Sheck | July 2, 2025

A Series of Unfortunate Salaries: <br>Maris Kreizman on Fighting the Publishing Industry’s Elitism

A Series of Unfortunate Salaries:
Maris Kreizman on Fighting the Publishing Industry’s Elitism

The Author of “I Want to Burn This Place Down” Unionizes Against the Big Five’s Unlivable Wages

By Maris Kreizman | July 1, 2025

The Supreme Court just approved anti-LGBT book bans.

The Supreme Court just approved anti-LGBT book bans.

By James Folta | June 27, 2025

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By James Folta | June 27, 2025

The Courts Just Made Our Libraries Sitting Ducks For AI Plundering

By Aron Solomon | June 27, 2025

Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers

By Literary Hub | June 27, 2025

Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander Have Shown Us a Way Forward

Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander Have Shown Us a Way Forward

Steven W. Thrasher on What a Healthy Progressive Coalition Looks Like

By Steven W. Thrasher | June 26, 2025

What Would Happen If the Chatbots Broke Free of Their Masters?

What Would Happen If the Chatbots Broke Free of Their Masters?

Paul Bradley Carr on the Danger—For Tech Bros—of Empathetic, Knowledgable Artificial Intelligence

By Paul Bradley Carr | June 26, 2025

The Magical Mundane: Work, Technology and Consumerism in the World of <em>Harry Potter</em>

The Magical Mundane: Work, Technology and Consumerism in the World of Harry Potter

Keridiana Chez Explores the Role of Magic as Instant Gratification and Automation in the Potter-Verse

By Keridiana Chez | June 26, 2025

This is how over 40% of NYC bookstores became unionized.

This is how over 40% of NYC bookstores became unionized.

By James Folta | June 24, 2025

Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

Aron Solomon Looks at American Law Through a Jazz Age Lens 

By Aron Solomon | June 24, 2025

Inside Mexican Feminists’ Fight For Safe and Legal Abortion

Inside Mexican Feminists’ Fight For Safe and Legal Abortion

Rebecca Grant on the Battle for Reproductive Freedom in Latin America and Throughout the World

By Rebecca Grant | June 24, 2025

Mahmoud Khalil, Zohran Mamdani, and the Politics of Vulnerability

Mahmoud Khalil, Zohran Mamdani, and the Politics of Vulnerability

Steven W. Thrasher on Two Men Who Are Showing Us a Better Way

By Steven W. Thrasher | June 23, 2025

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