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    The Issues 2024: The Fight for Climate Justice

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    By Ed Simon  October 31, 2024
    The Hub

    A brief literary history of the newspaper endorsement.

    By Brittany Allen  October 30, 2024
    Apocalypses

    “Mike Knew Apocalypses Had Been Coming at Us All Along.” Rebecca Solnit on the Great Mike Davis

    By Rebecca Solnit  October 30, 2024
    War

    An Unwinnable War: Why the United States Was Doomed To Fail in Vietnam

    By Geoffrey Wawro  October 30, 2024
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    The 10 Best Books on Reproductive Rights

    By Catherine Habgood  October 30, 2024
    Influences

    Channeling Curiosity Into Language: How a Diverse Array of Influences Feeds Poetic Development

    By Mónica de la Torre  October 29, 2024
    Philosophy

    Philosopher of Change: How Henri Bergson’s Radical View of Reality Came to Be

    By Emily Herring  October 29, 2024
    America

    What the Fourth of July Reveals About the Unfulfilled Promise of America

    By Theodore Johnson  October 28, 2024
    The Hub

    A sex-work-positive reading list, inspired by Anora .

    By Brittany Allen  October 25, 2024
    The Sea

    Consider the Shipwreck: Ten Books on Maritime Disasters and Ecological Collapse

    By Eiren Caffall  October 25, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    The Issues 2024: On America’s Uniquely Deadly Gun Problem

    By Literary Hub  October 25, 2024
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    10 Best Books on Guns in America

    By Catherine Habgood  October 25, 2024
    Fashion History

    From Torpedo Bras to Whale Tails: A Brief History of Women’s Underwear

    By Nina Edwards  October 24, 2024
    National Parks

    A Geological Time Bomb: Remembering the Night That Yellowstone Exploded

    By Randall K. Wilson  October 24, 2024
    Storytelling

    Simple Yet Profound: On the Timelessness of Aesop’s Fables

    By Robin Waterfield  October 24, 2024
    Vietnam

    “America’s Literary Giant.” On the Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe in Vietnam

    By Nguyễn Bình  October 23, 2024
    The Royal Family

    How the British Monarchy Made Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day

    By Tom Parker Bowles  October 23, 2024
    American West

    How a Hidden Corner of the American West Became a Refuge For Outlaws

    By Tom Clavin  October 22, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Elif Shafak on the Power of Literature and Being a Writer in the “Age of Angst”

    By Elif Shafak  October 22, 2024
    Recipes

    Heavenly Paella: Exploring a Unique Monastic Culinary Culture in the Mountains of Catalonia

    By Jody Eddy  October 21, 2024
    Exploration

    Himilco, Hanno, Faxian… And Other Early World Explorers Who Should Be More Famous

    By Matthew Lockwood  October 21, 2024
    Cundill History Prize

    Seven Essential Texts That Show the Human Side of Black Legal History

    By Dylan C. Penningroth  October 21, 2024
    Traveling

    The Original Eurotrip: How the Grand Tour Shaped Generations of 19th-Century Elites

    By Steve Burgess  October 18, 2024
    Cundill History Prize

    Five Essential Books For Understanding Native American History

    By Kathleen DuVal  October 17, 2024
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