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On One of the Most Influential Essays of the 21st Century: Of Snark and Smarm

By Stephen Marche  February 14, 2023
Keen On

H. Samy Alim Celebrates Hip Hop on its 50th Birthday

By Keen On  February 14, 2023
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Sathnam Sanghera on How the West Cannot Escape Its Imperial Past

By Keen On  February 14, 2023
Black History

How Huey P. Newton’s Early Intellectual Life Led Him To Activism

By Mark Whitaker  February 13, 2023
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History Lessons: Robert Kagan on American Foreign Policy and the Collapse of the World Order c. 1900-1941

By Keen On  February 13, 2023
Harlem Renaissance

Why Harlem? Considering the Site of “Civil Rights by Copyright,” 100 Years Later

By Bo McMillan  February 13, 2023
The History of Literature

Dr. Tara A. Bynum Considers Four Canonical Black Writers from the 18th and Early 19th Centuries

By History of Literature  February 13, 2023
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Damian Dibben on the Importance of Color in Art, and Why We Should All Visit Venice at Least Once

By Keen On  February 10, 2023
Slavery

Nikole Hannah-Jones on Opposition to the 1619 Project and Teaching Slavery in Schools

By Nikole Hannah-Jones  February 10, 2023
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Fintan O’Toole on Contemporary Ireland as a Model for an Open 21st-Century Society

By Keen On  February 10, 2023
Book Dreams

Jack Parlett on the Sentient Allure of Fire Island

By Book Dreams  February 9, 2023
American History

The Truth Behind the Poetry: On the Facts and Myths of the American Revolution’s Early Days

By Bob Thompson  February 8, 2023
Presidential Power

More Than A Meal: How White House Dinners Shape Presidential Policy

By Alex Prud’homme  February 8, 2023
Food History

How America Came to Enthusiastically Embrace Sushi

By Lisa Kingsley  February 8, 2023
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Bob Thompson Gets Into His Gas-Guzzling VW in Search of the American War of Independence

By Keen On  February 8, 2023
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Susan Wels on the Connection of a 19th-Century Sex Cult to a President’s Murder

By Keen On  February 8, 2023
NASA

How Astronaut Class 8 Broke Racial and Gender Barriers

By Meredith Bagby  February 7, 2023
Deep Time

What Oslo’s Future Library Means for Writers and the Written Word

By Martin Puchner  February 7, 2023
American History

Kwame Dawes on The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By Kwame Dawes  February 6, 2023
The Literary Journal Archives

Mysteries Contained Therein: In Praise of the Literary Journal Longform Interview

By Nick Ripatrazone  February 3, 2023
Cults

Planet Koresh: Inside the Mount Carmel Compound in Waco, Texas

By Kevin Cook  February 2, 2023
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The Return of the Dissident Academic Model: Balazs Trencsenyi on the Invisible University for Ukraine

By Keen On  February 2, 2023
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Eleanor Shearer on Writing a Post-Slavery West Indian Novel Celebrating Motherhood and Resilience

By Keen On  February 1, 2023
What to Watch

Emily Disregards the Most Compelling Part of the Brontë Sisterhood

By Iona Glen  January 31, 2023
Lit Century

Revisiting Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War During Russia’s War on Ukraine

By Lit Century   January 31, 2023
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