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20 Canadian authors have withdrawn from the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

20 Canadian authors have withdrawn from the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

By Dan Sheehan | July 10, 2024

Jan Carson on Capturing the Failures of Northern Ireland in Fiction

Jan Carson on Capturing the Failures of Northern Ireland in Fiction

The Author of "Quickly, While They Still Have Horses" Reflects on a Country's Disappointing Lack of Progress

By Jan Carson | July 10, 2024

If You’re Going to Platform Extremists You Should At Least Check Their Facts

If You’re Going to Platform Extremists You Should At Least Check Their Facts

Maris Kreizman on Publishing’s Nonfiction Problem

By Maris Kreizman | July 9, 2024

Word Are Deeds: Rebecca Solnit the Power of Speech to Shape the Future

Word Are Deeds: Rebecca Solnit the Power of Speech to Shape the Future

“Your opponents would love you to believe that it’s hopeless, that you have no power.”

By Rebecca Solnit | July 3, 2024

Gaza Diaries: “We Left Our Souls at Home.”

Gaza Diaries: “We Left Our Souls at Home.”

From Heba Al-Agha’s Account of the last Eight Months of Israel’s War on Gaza (trans. Julia Choucair Vizoso)

By Heba Al-Agha and Julia Choucair Vizoso | July 3, 2024

Remembering Samuel Roth, the Bookseller Who Defied America’s Obscenity Laws

Remembering Samuel Roth, the Bookseller Who Defied America’s Obscenity Laws

Ed Simon on Free Speech, Book Bans and Court-Mandated Censorship, Then and Now

By Ed Simon | July 3, 2024

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Support One Moment, Racism the Next: On Being a Black Nigerian Man in America

By Samuel Kóláwólé | July 3, 2024

How Do We Balance the Needs of the Earth With the Needs of Humanity?

By C. L. Skach | July 2, 2024

Is it the summer of the brat?

By Brittany Allen | July 1, 2024

Blood-Soaked Handkerchiefs and Burnt Dresses: The Lizzie Borden Trial, as Told in a Newspaper of the Time

Blood-Soaked Handkerchiefs and Burnt Dresses: The Lizzie Borden Trial, as Told in a Newspaper of the Time

The Journalist and Suffragist Elizabeth Garver Jordan Covers a Macabre Media Sensation

By Elizabeth Garver Jordan | July 1, 2024

What We Can Learn From the Boy Scouts of America’s Fight For LGBTQ+ Equality

What We Can Learn From the Boy Scouts of America’s Fight For LGBTQ+ Equality

Mike De Socio on the Legal and Cultural Battle for Queer Rights and Recognition Within an All-American Institution

By Mike De Socio | June 28, 2024

What the Rise of Techno-Humanitarianism Means For Crisis-Hit Communities Across the Globe

What the Rise of Techno-Humanitarianism Means For Crisis-Hit Communities Across the Globe

Jean-Martin Bauer on the Use of Technology to Resolve Global Hunger and Food Insecurity

By Jean-Martin Bauer | June 26, 2024

What Unlearning Zionism Can Teach American Jews About Israel and Palestine

What Unlearning Zionism Can Teach American Jews About Israel and Palestine

Oren Kroll-Zeldin on Jewish Identity, Community Myths and Personal and Political Transformation

By Oren Kroll-Zeldin | June 26, 2024

An End to Exclusivity: On the Fight For Equitable Land Distribution in Minnesota

An End to Exclusivity: On the Fight For Equitable Land Distribution in Minnesota

Audrea Lim Considers the Reparative Possibilities of Land Ownership for Marginalized Communities

By Audrea Lim | June 26, 2024

75 Years of <em>1984</em>: Why George Orwell’s Classic Remains More Relevant Than Ever

75 Years of 1984: Why George Orwell’s Classic Remains More Relevant Than Ever

Elif Shafak on the Relentless Real-World Spread of Orwellian Dystopia

By Elif Shafak | June 24, 2024

Roe, Dobbs, and Reproductive Justice Lit: A Reading List for Abortion Advocacy

Roe, Dobbs, and Reproductive Justice Lit: A Reading List for Abortion Advocacy

Merle Hoffman Recommends Laura Kaplan, Dorothy Roberts, Rickie Solinger, and More

By Merle Hoffman | June 24, 2024

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