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    Baillie Gifford Prize

    Meet the Writers on the Baillie Gifford Prize Longlist

    By Literary Hub  October 1, 2022
    Keen On

    Among Other Things, Neoliberalism is “Too Boring” to Confront the Hard Right Threat to Democracy

    By Andrew Keen  September 30, 2022
    Economics

    How the Federal Reserve Can Be Used To Help the Average American

    By Owen Ullmann  September 30, 2022
    The Literary Life

    Ibram X. Kendi on Why Our Children Need to Be Told the Stories of Slavery and Colonialism

    By The Literary Life  September 30, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jonathan Escoffery Talks About How Belonging Shifts Across Generations

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 29, 2022
    The Hub

    These writers made TIME’s list of the year’s 100 most influential people.

    By Corinne Segal  September 28, 2022
    India

    Indian Writers on 75 Years of Independence and Partition

    By Literary Hub  September 28, 2022
    Violence

    Who Has the Right to Bear Arms? A Brief History

    By Elsa Dorlin  September 28, 2022
    Nazi Germany

    What Was Germany Like in the Decade After Hitler?

    By Harald Jähner  September 28, 2022
    On Racism

    How White Supremacy Was Codified Into Law in America

    By Margaret A. Burnham  September 28, 2022
    The Hub

    Is this the weirdest American book-banning yet?

    By Jonny Diamond  September 26, 2022
    Keen On

    Why the Chinese Economic Bubble Might Never Pop

    By Keen On  September 26, 2022
    Keen On

    On Kanye, the Chinese Surveillance State, and Our Post-Realist Future

    By Andrew Keen  September 23, 2022
    Keen On

    How the Upcoming Brazilian Presidential Election is a Referendum on Racism, Misogyny, and Military Rule

    By Keen On  September 23, 2022
    Book Banning

    Congressional Democrats are planning resolutions to resist book banning trends.

    By Corinne Segal  September 22, 2022
    News and Culture

    Neither Natural Nor Inevitable: How Language Masks Gentrification

    By Leslie Kern  September 22, 2022
    Queer Community

    On the Radical Possibilities of Queer Friendship

    By Ramzi Fawaz  September 22, 2022
    Keen On

    Why China’s “New Kind” of Modern Surveillance Government Might Not Be Quite as Chilling as it Appears

    By Keen On  September 22, 2022
    Wrongful Conviction

    What the Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment of Marvin Anderson Reveals About the American Legal System

    By Daniel S. Medwed  September 21, 2022
    Keen On

    The Bitter End: The 2020 Election and the Future of American Democracy

    By Keen On  September 21, 2022
    SCOTUS

    Screaming in Secret: Dahlia Lithwick on the Women Who Work Within the Legal System

    By Dahlia Lithwick  September 20, 2022
    Extremism

    What Inspired a Bigoted Media Shock Jock to Start His Own Far-Right Fight Club?

    By Andy Campbell  September 20, 2022
    Blackness

    Where Blackness is a World of Possibility

    By Hafizah Augustus Geter  September 20, 2022
    Banned Books

    PEN America documented more than 2,500 book bans during the last school year.

    By Corinne Segal  September 19, 2022
    Education

    Teaching Literature in the New Culture Wars: Some Alternative Approaches

    By Deborah Appleman  September 19, 2022
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