• History

    Supreme Court Nomination

    Does Amy Coney Barrett’s Nomination Violate the Religious Test Clause of the Constitution?

    By Michael Rips  October 26, 2020
    Philosophy

    Michiko Kakutani on
    Why We Love Books

    By Michiko Kakutani  October 26, 2020
    Labor

    The Fight for Better Living and Working Conditions for Latinx Farmworkers in the US

    By Paola Ramos  October 26, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Fan Letters of Simone de Beauvoir

    By New Books Network  October 26, 2020
    Nature Writing

    Sylvia Plath… Nature Writer?

    By Marlena Williams  October 23, 2020
    Indian Literature

    The Enduring Strength and Richness of Kashmir’s
    Literary Life

    By Sharanya Deepak  October 23, 2020
    Commons

    Towards a Definition of the Brown Commons

    By José Esteban Muñoz  October 23, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Ever-Evolving Landscape of Scholarly Book Publishing

    By New Books Network  October 23, 2020
    On Translation

    WATCH: Writers and Translators on What It Means to Have a ‘Mother Tongue’

    By Literary Hub  October 23, 2020
    The Antibody Reading Series

    Antibody: Starring Angela Chen, Athena Dixon, and Melissa Faliveno

    By The Antibody Reading Series  October 22, 2020
    Essayists

    A Brief History of the Political Essay

    By David Bromwich  October 22, 2020
    Cookbooks

    On Turn-of-the-Century Suffrage Cookbooks, Trojan Horse For Women’s Equality

    By Laura Kumin  October 22, 2020
    We Have Ways of Making You Talk

    Restoring the World’s Most Iconic Fighter Plane

    By We Have Ways of Making You Talk   October 22, 2020
    The Hub

    Tim O’Brien recited poetry to himself to get through the war.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 21, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Where Do Reading Lists Come From? (And Why Do We Love Them?)

    By William Germano and Kit Nicholls  October 21, 2020
    Presidential Campaign 2020

    On Voting: It’s Always the Most Important Election of Your Life

    By Todd Gitlin  October 21, 2020
    Medieval History

    Cheap Writing Surfaces and Medieval Bureaucracy Helped Popularize the Alphabet

    By Judith Flanders  October 21, 2020
    Art and Politics

    Czesław Miłosz Confronts the Dark and Immutable Order of the World

    By Czesław Miłosz  October 21, 2020
    New Books Network

    How Liberal Idealism Has Failed Modern Diplomacy

    By New Books Network  October 21, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Navigating Crisis: On Asian American Solidarity in a Post-Covid America

    By Daniel Tam-Claiborne  October 20, 2020
    Lit Century

    Why Djuna Barnes Withdrew Into Total Seclusion the Last 40 Years of Her Life

    By Lit Century   October 20, 2020
    On Race

    When a Young Malcolm X Addressed a Hartford Housing Project

    By Les Payne and Tamara Payne  October 20, 2020
    Nightlife

    The Center of the Universe? Capturing New York City 90s Nightlife

    By Gabriel Sanchez  October 20, 2020
    Keen On

    Why Should We Care About So-Called Genius?

    By Keen On  October 20, 2020
    Revolutions

    The Complicated Resistance Efforts of Enslaved Women in the West Indies

    By Stella Dadzie  October 20, 2020
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