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Keen On

Apocalypse Now? On Crypto Scams, End Times, and Far Right Nostalgia

Andrew Keen Thinks We Should All Read Peter Zeihan

 
By Andrew Keen  July 1, 2022
Origin Stories

The Alchemy of Language: Ina Cariño on Naming, Claiming, and Protecting Ancestral Land

By Ina Cariño  July 1, 2022
Anthropocene

How the White Ecology of Disaster Inscribed Itself Into the Human Experience

By Daisy Hildyard  June 30, 2022
Libraries

How Fiction Helps Bring History’s Extraordinary Yet Forgotten Women To Life

By Alexandra Lapierre  June 30, 2022
The Maris Review

Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Cultural Memories of Korea

By The Maris Review  June 30, 2022
Journalism

Heat, Rain, and Snow in Baltimore: On Reporting in the Pre-Digital Era

By David Michael Ettlin  June 30, 2022
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Keen On

How a White Racist “Totalitarian” System Permeates American History and Why Reparations Might Be the Only Fix

By Keen On  June 30, 2022
Science fiction

How Costumes and Conventions Brought Sci-Fi Fans Together in the Early 20th Century

By Andrew Liptak  June 29, 2022
Coming out

Why 1997 Was a Pivotal Year in the Life of George Michael

By James Gavin  June 29, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Patrick Radden Keefe on Why Access in Journalism is Overrated

On the Art of the “Writearound”

By Patrick Radden Keefe  July 1, 2022
Travel

What Institutional Neglect Did to a New York City Resort Community

By Sarah Stodola  June 28, 2022
Abortion Rights

Racism, Patriarchy, and Power: Siri Hustvedt on the Toxic Thinking Behind the Supreme Court’s Destruction of Abortion Rights

By Siri Hustvedt  June 27, 2022
Russian Literature

The Unnoticed Generation: How Russian Writers in Paris Grappled With the Complexities of Life Between the Wars

By Bryan Karetnyk  June 27, 2022
Debut Novels

How a North Korean Kidnapping Inspired My Novel

Ravi Mangla on the Intersections Between Godzilla, Propaganda and South Korean Cinema

By Ravi Mangla  June 27, 2022
Friendship

How One of America’s Most Influential Black Writers Befriended a Pioneering American Aviator

By Gene Andrew Jarrett  June 27, 2022
European History

How Myth, Poetry and Literature Helped Create Early Medieval England

By Marc Morris  June 27, 2022
The History of Literature

How Did the Prim, Religious Christina Rossetti Come to Write Such a Bizarre and Hedonistic Poem?

By History of Literature  June 27, 2022
Happy Pride

Anger, Joy, Resistance: Queer Readings For Pride Month

Words to “Remind Us of the Love We Share During the Rough Times to Come.”

By Literary Hub  June 24, 2022
Happy Pride

111 Queer Books Recommended by Librarians, Booksellers, and Authors

By Literary Hub  June 24, 2022
Keen On

Whose Nightmare Are We Living In: Orwell’s or Huxley’s?

By Andrew Keen  June 24, 2022
Queer Literature

Drag Explosion: A Queer Nonfiction Reading List

By Nicole Pasulka  June 24, 2022
Indigenous History

The Early Life of the Renowned Leader of the Lakotas, Sitting Bull

Mark Lee Gardner on Sitting Bull's Transformation into a Young Peacemaker

By Mark Lee Gardner  June 24, 2022
Fiction/Non/Fiction

“A War I Saw Unfolding Firsthand.” Héctor Tobar on the 30th Anniversary of the LA Riots

By Fiction Non Fiction  June 23, 2022
Politics

Why We Should Pay Attention to the Slow Decay of America’s Forgotten Cities

By Michelle Wilde Anderson  June 23, 2022
Bisexuality

Nope, Not a Trend: On the Modern Origins and Evolution of Bisexual Identity

By Julia Shaw  June 29, 2022
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