Who would you sit with at this 1972 dinner: Dylan and Vonnegut, or Cheever and Ginsberg?

Who would you sit with at this 1972 dinner: Dylan and Vonnegut, or Cheever and Ginsberg?

By Jonny Diamond | July 26, 2022

On the Anguish of Quarterlife: A Literary History

On the Anguish of Quarterlife: A Literary History

Satya Doyle Byock Considers the Perennial Preoccupations of One’s Midtwenties

By Satya Doyle Byock | July 26, 2022

Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

On the Author of the Most Widely Denounced Novel Published Before World War I

By Hilary A. Hallett | July 26, 2022

How ISIS Filled the Power Vacuum Left By US Forces In Iraq

How ISIS Filled the Power Vacuum Left By US Forces In Iraq

Michael R. Gordon on the Origins of America’s War Against the Islamic State

By Michael R. Gordon | July 26, 2022

Anna Badkhen Finds Space for Hope and Sanctuary Amidst Histories of Imperial Collapse

Anna Badkhen Finds Space for Hope and Sanctuary Amidst Histories of Imperial Collapse

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | July 25, 2022

How Corporate America Created Car Culture—And What We Can Do To Change It

How Corporate America Created Car Culture—And What We Can Do To Change It

Paris Marx on the Liberatory Potential of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Ideas About Technology

By Paris Marx | July 21, 2022

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“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

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Ash Davidson on Now in November

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How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

John Wood Sweet on Sex, Love and Rape Culture in Early America

By John Wood Sweet | July 19, 2022

How Trying to Find a Cure For Scurvy Led to the Gimlet

How Trying to Find a Cure For Scurvy Led to the Gimlet

On Limey and Limes on British Royal Navy ships

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Searching For a Lost Medieval City Somewhere in Wales

Searching For a Lost Medieval City Somewhere in Wales

A Lay-Archaeologist, Pissed-Off Professionals, and Some Farmland Near the Forest of Dean

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The Republican Party Now Backs an Anti-Democratic Insurgency

The Republican Party Now Backs an Anti-Democratic Insurgency

Malcolm Nance on the Trump Insurgents and the Conspiracy Thinking of Their MAGA-Hat-Colored World

By Malcolm Nance | July 18, 2022

Suhail Matar on Writing About Palestinians Meeting the World

Suhail Matar on Writing About Palestinians Meeting the World

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By The Common | July 15, 2022

Censorship By Omission: How Systemic Racism is Downplayed and Dismissed in the Classroom

Censorship By Omission: How Systemic Racism is Downplayed and Dismissed in the Classroom

Jared Del Rosso on What is and Isn't Taught in American Schools

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