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    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
    Artificial Intelligence

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

    By Paul Bradley Carr  June 26, 2025
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

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

    By Keridiana Chez  June 26, 2025
    Literary History

    Judge, Critic, Saloniére: On Sylvia Lynd, One of the Great Literary Citizens of the 20th Century

    By Nicola Wilson  June 26, 2025
    Immigrant Stories

    Uncaring Healthcare: The Impossible Cost of Being Undocumented and Ill in America

    By Alix Dick and Antero Garcia  June 26, 2025
    The Hub

    Why are we so obsessed with stories about a group of friends in the big city?

    By Brittany Allen  June 25, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
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    A new prize from three publishers will champion poetry in translation.

    By James Folta  June 25, 2025
    Women in Science

    Why Field Research Remains an Essential Part of Scientific Inquiry and Inclusion

    By Sarah Boon  June 25, 2025
    Wrestling

    “Shakespeare in a Ring.” Hulk Hogan and the Rise of Pro Wrestling in the American Psyche

    By Marc Raimondi  June 25, 2025
    The Natural World

    Last Outposts: Rediscovering Hope for Humanity on Norway’s Remote Northern Coast

    James Rebanks: “I found myself fascinated by the remotest islands, and a strange tradition that seemed to keep people going out to them.”

    By James Rebanks  June 26, 2025
    Surfing

    Waves and Wipeouts: On Learning How to Surf As an Adult

    By David Litt  June 25, 2025
    Food Writing

    How Amaranth Influenced Indigenous Culture and Cooking in the American Southwest

    By Michael Shaikh  June 25, 2025
    The Hub

    AI will make you a dumber writer, says science.

    By James Folta  June 24, 2025
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    This is how over 40% of NYC bookstores became unionized.

    By James Folta  June 24, 2025
    Law

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

    By Aron Solomon  June 24, 2025
    Hollywood

    Sodom and Gomorrah on Celluloid: How the Hays Code Took the Sex Out of Hollywood

    By Michael Koresky  June 24, 2025
    Theater

    Eurydice at 18: On the Off-Broadway Revival of Sarah Ruhl’s Beloved Play

    By Pamela Newton  June 24, 2025
    Reproductive Rights

    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
    Politics

    Mahmoud Khalil, Zohran Mamdani, and the Politics of Vulnerability

    By Steven W. Thrasher  June 23, 2025
    Gun violence

    It Happened Here: Remembering One of America’s First Modern School Shootings, 50 Years Later

    By Sally Ventura  June 23, 2025
    Experimental Fiction

    Black Finnegan: On William Melvin Kelley, James Joyce, and the Avant-Garde of the Subaltern

    By Benjamin Hale  June 23, 2025
    Fascism

    The Dark Magic of Words: Why Fascism and Illiberalism Are So Seductive to Writers

    Ed Simon Looks at Eduard Limonov, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Yukio Mishima, and Others

    By Ed Simon  June 23, 2025
    Food Writing

    “Fidelity to Both Pleasure and Humiliation.” On M.F.K. Fisher’s Feminist Realism

    By Klara Feenstra  June 23, 2025
    Feminism

    How Sex and the City Exemplifies Late 20th-Century Feminist Despair

    By Alice Bolin  June 23, 2025
    Art and Life

    On Marina Abramović and the Radical Notion of the Third Act

    By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  June 25, 2025
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