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Jamie Figueroa: Prophecies of Possibility and a Ripening of the Next World

Jamie Figueroa: Prophecies of Possibility and a Ripening of the Next World

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | January 23, 2023

On the Life of George Kennan, Divided Between the United States and the Soviet Union

On the Life of George Kennan, Divided Between the United States and the Soviet Union

Frank Costigliola in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 23, 2023

Why <em>All Creatures Great and Small</em> is About So Much More Than a Charming Country Vet

Why All Creatures Great and Small is About So Much More Than a Charming Country Vet

Poised on the Ledge of WWII, the PBS Series Based on James Herriot’s Life Captures the Writer‘s Ethos

By Ethan Warren | January 20, 2023

Debunking the Coconut Myth: An Economist Breaks Down a Fundamental Misunderstanding of the Cause of Poverty in Poor Countries

Debunking the Coconut Myth: An Economist Breaks Down a Fundamental Misunderstanding of the Cause of Poverty in Poor Countries

Ha-Joon Chang on the Truth about the "Robinson Crusoe Economy"

By Ha-Joon Chang | January 20, 2023

How Scientists Diagnosed King Tut Thousands of Years After His Death

How Scientists Diagnosed King Tut Thousands of Years After His Death

Dale Greenwalt on the Detection of Ancient Diseases

By Dale Greenwalt | January 18, 2023

How Writing Against Empire Helps Heal Its Enduring Wounds

How Writing Against Empire Helps Heal Its Enduring Wounds

Tsitsi Dangarembga on the Brutal Legacy of Colonial Conquest

By Tsitsi Dangarembga | January 18, 2023

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The Future President and the Novelist: When Norman Mailer Met John F. Kennedy

By Richard Bradford | January 17, 2023

How It Took a Diverse Coalition to Truly Fight for Reproductive Freedom in America

By Felicia Kornbluh | January 13, 2023

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023

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Surrounded by Wonders: Pico Iyer in Kashmir

Surrounded by Wonders: Pico Iyer in Kashmir

"Kashmir became a shorthand for the contention that festers between neighbors whom Empire has cynically divided."

By Pico Iyer | January 11, 2023

After Freedom, Then What? What Those Escaping Slavery Found in Boston

After Freedom, Then What? What Those Escaping Slavery Found in Boston

Jacqueline Jones on the Economic Struggles of the Formerly Enslaved

By Jacqueline Jones | January 11, 2023

What Does the Plight of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era Tell Us About Contemporary American Struggles?

What Does the Plight of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era Tell Us About Contemporary American Struggles?

Jacqueline Jones in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 10, 2023

Who Is the “Noted Writer” Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery?

Who Is the “Noted Writer” Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery?

Nicky Beer Searches For a Long-Lost Writer in the Family

By Nicky Beer | January 9, 2023

The Original <em>Pinocchio</em> Is a Radical Anti-Work Story

The Original Pinocchio Is a Radical Anti-Work Story

Alessandro Delfanti on Late-19th-Century Italy and the Strings That Pull Us

By Alessandro Delfanti | January 6, 2023

We <em>Can’t</em> Do It: How Women’s Contributions to Fighting Fascism Were Forgotten

We Can’t Do It: How Women’s Contributions to Fighting Fascism Were Forgotten

Natasha Lester on the Collective Amnesia Around Women’s Accomplishments After World War II

By Natasha Lester | January 6, 2023

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