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Approaching Gridlock: Arundhati Roy on Free Speech and Failing Democracy

Approaching Gridlock: Arundhati Roy on Free Speech and Failing Democracy

“There can be no fiction without appropriation. Because we fiction writers are predators too.”

By Arundhati Roy | March 24, 2023

Alone on the Range: Victor LaValle on <em>Lone Women</em>’s Homesteaders, History, and Horror

Alone on the Range: Victor LaValle on Lone Women’s Homesteaders, History, and Horror

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 23, 2023

From Volcanoes To Bathtubs: On the Many Uses and Forms of Pumice

From Volcanoes To Bathtubs: On the Many Uses and Forms of Pumice

Hettie Judah Explores the History and Science Behind Solidified Lava

By Hettie Judah | March 23, 2023

Ren DeStefano on Female Serial Killers and Why She Suspects Everyone Might Have a Murder in Them

Ren DeStefano on Female Serial Killers and Why She Suspects Everyone Might Have a Murder in Them

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 23, 2023

John Parker Liberates African History From the Colonial Narrative of Oppression, Suffering, and Powerlessness

John Parker Liberates African History From the Colonial Narrative of Oppression, Suffering, and Powerlessness

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 22, 2023

You Cannot Protect Your Children From <em>Moana</em>: How Not to Fight Fairy Tales

You Cannot Protect Your Children From Moana: How Not to Fight Fairy Tales

Julia Langbein Channeled Her Parental Anxiety into Better Girlhood Characters

By Julia Langbein | March 21, 2023

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Martin Puchner on How Culture is Simultaneously Owned by Nobody and By All of Us

By Keen On | March 21, 2023

How To Think Like a Woman: A Brief Accounting of Unacknowledged Philosophical Genius

By Regan Penaluna | March 20, 2023

Little House of Propaganda: Homesteading Myths and the Sentimentality of Self-Reliance

By Alissa Quart | March 20, 2023

A Deep-Dive on Catullus, the Roman Poet of Fierce Desire and Hatred

A Deep-Dive on Catullus, the Roman Poet of Fierce Desire and Hatred

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | March 20, 2023

Elisabeth B. Armstrong on the Most Consequential Anti-Colonial Feminist Conference You’ve Never Heard Of

Elisabeth B. Armstrong on the Most Consequential Anti-Colonial Feminist Conference You’ve Never Heard Of

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 20, 2023

The Exile of Oscar Wilde, Dublin’s Charming Ghost

The Exile of Oscar Wilde, Dublin’s Charming Ghost

Alexander Poots on Northern Ireland's Literary Past

By Alexander Poots | March 17, 2023

The Wizardry of Boz: A Brief History of Charles Dickens on Screen

The Wizardry of Boz: A Brief History of Charles Dickens on Screen

The New Great Expectations Series Has Big Shoes to Fill (About 400 Pairs of Them)

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst | March 17, 2023

What Survivors of Trauma Demand From Their Abusers—and the Public At Large

What Survivors of Trauma Demand From Their Abusers—and the Public At Large

Judith L. Herman on Collective Acknowledgement in the Aftermath of Sexual Violence

By Judith L. Herman | March 17, 2023

In Argentina, How the Bones of the Dead Communicate With the Living

In Argentina, How the Bones of the Dead Communicate With the Living

Alexa Hagerty on a Country’s Continuing Quest for Memory, Truth, and Justice

By Alexa Hagerty | March 16, 2023

20 Years After the Invasion: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on Iraqi Perspectives on the War and What Western Media Missed

20 Years After the Invasion: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on Iraqi Perspectives on the War and What Western Media Missed

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 16, 2023

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