How Language Can Be Used to Destroy and Dominate, and How It Can Be Used to Remember and Reclaim

How Language Can Be Used to Destroy and Dominate, and How It Can Be Used to Remember and Reclaim

Jake Skeets on the Violent Reality and Liberatory Potential of Words

By Jake Skeets | December 5, 2022

What a Novel Set in the Siberia of 1973 Tells Us About the Soviet Union, Women’s Gymnastics, and Contemporary America

What a Novel Set in the Siberia of 1973 Tells Us About the Soviet Union, Women’s Gymnastics, and Contemporary America

Rae Meadows in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 2, 2022

What Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Living a Committed Life

What Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King Can Teach Us About Living a Committed Life

Lynne Twist in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 2, 2022

Fast Love in Turbulent Times: The Early Days of Sarah Kidd’s Marriage to a Notorious Pirate

Fast Love in Turbulent Times: The Early Days of Sarah Kidd’s Marriage to a Notorious Pirate

Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos on the Suspicious Timing of a Widowing and a Wedding

By Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos | December 1, 2022

Why Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?

Why Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?

Stacy Schiff In Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | December 1, 2022

Joe Hagan on How the Death of Boredom Is the Biggest Loss of Our Generation

Joe Hagan on How the Death of Boredom Is the Biggest Loss of Our Generation

This Week on Twitterverse, a Show About Tweets and the Writers Who Send Them

By Twitterverse | December 1, 2022

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The Challenge of Confronting Hitler’s Moral Stain on Europe

By Ian Kershaw | December 1, 2022

In a Time of Hostility Toward Reason and Science, What Can the Ancient Greeks Teach us About the Value of Rationality?

By Keen On | December 1, 2022

Iain MacGregor on Discovering the Untold Stories of Stalingrad’s Citizens

By Iain MacGregor | November 30, 2022

Ghostly Survivals: Michael Kimmelman and Lucy Sante on a Shapeshifting City

Ghostly Survivals: Michael Kimmelman and Lucy Sante on a Shapeshifting City

“Nothing is permanent, especially in a city like New York.”

By Michael Kimmelman | November 29, 2022

When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

Bob Blaisdell in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 29, 2022

Read a New Translation of “The Caucasus” by Ukrainian Poet-Hero Taras Shevchenko

Read a New Translation of “The Caucasus” by Ukrainian Poet-Hero Taras Shevchenko

“The bones / Of many soldiers languish there. / And what of blood, and what of tears?”

By Literary Hub | November 29, 2022

Deep in the Literary Journal Archives: Poetry That Takes Risks and Takes Up Space

Deep in the Literary Journal Archives: Poetry That Takes Risks and Takes Up Space

Nick Ripatrazone Looks Back at The American Poetry Review, Pleiades, and The Hudson Review

By Nick Ripatrazone | November 29, 2022

Do the Oscars Have a Future in an Age of Superhero Sequels and Prequels?

Do the Oscars Have a Future in an Age of Superhero Sequels and Prequels?

Bruce Davis in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 29, 2022

Paul Lafargue on the Spectacle of Victor Hugo’s Funeral

Paul Lafargue on the Spectacle of Victor Hugo’s Funeral

“The most magnificent funeral of the century.”

By Paul Lafargue | November 28, 2022

On Preserving the Lenape Language (and Trying to Get Face Time with an NYC Mayor)

On Preserving the Lenape Language (and Trying to Get Face Time with an NYC Mayor)

Margie Cook in Conversation with Preservationist Jim Rementer

By Margie Cook | November 28, 2022

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