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The Alchemy of Language: Ina Cariño on Naming, Claiming, and Protecting Ancestral Land

The Alchemy of Language: Ina Cariño on Naming, Claiming, and Protecting Ancestral Land

“I spell myself deliberately, with intention: an alchemization, plain metal to gold.”

By Ina Cariño | July 1, 2022

How the White Ecology of Disaster Inscribed Itself Into the Human Experience

How the White Ecology of Disaster Inscribed Itself Into the Human Experience

Daisy Hildyard Examines the Impact of Ecological Violence on the Nonhuman World

By Daisy Hildyard | June 30, 2022

How Fiction Helps Bring History’s Extraordinary Yet Forgotten Women To Life

How Fiction Helps Bring History’s Extraordinary Yet Forgotten Women To Life

Alexandra Lapierre on Immersing Herself in the Life of Belle da Costa Greene

By Alexandra Lapierre | June 30, 2022

Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Cultural Memories of Korea

Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Cultural Memories of Korea

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | June 30, 2022

Heat, Rain, and Snow in Baltimore: On Reporting in the Pre-Digital Era

Heat, Rain, and Snow in Baltimore: On Reporting in the Pre-Digital Era

David Michael Ettlin Finds Community in the Newsroom

By David Michael Ettlin | June 30, 2022

How a White Racist “Totalitarian” System Permeates American History and Why Reparations Might Be the Only Fix

How a White Racist “Totalitarian” System Permeates American History and Why Reparations Might Be the Only Fix

Baynard Woods in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 30, 2022

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Nope, Not a Trend: On the Modern Origins and Evolution of Bisexual Identity

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What Institutional Neglect Did to a New York City Resort Community

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Sarah Stodola on the History of Rockaway, Queens

By Sarah Stodola | June 28, 2022

Racism, Patriarchy, and Power: Siri Hustvedt on the Toxic Thinking Behind the Supreme Court’s Destruction of Abortion Rights

Racism, Patriarchy, and Power: Siri Hustvedt on the Toxic Thinking Behind the Supreme Court’s Destruction of Abortion Rights

“Legislating reproductive rights remains a hallmark of authoritarian and fascist governments.”

By Siri Hustvedt | June 27, 2022

The Unnoticed Generation: How Russian Writers in Paris Grappled With the Complexities of Life Between the Wars

The Unnoticed Generation: How Russian Writers in Paris Grappled With the Complexities of Life Between the Wars

Bryan Karetnyk on Translating the Work of Yuri Felsen

By Bryan Karetnyk | June 27, 2022

How a North Korean Kidnapping Inspired My Novel

How a North Korean Kidnapping Inspired My Novel

Ravi Mangla on the Intersections Between Godzilla, Propaganda and South Korean Cinema

By Ravi Mangla | June 27, 2022

How One of America’s Most Influential Black Writers Befriended a Pioneering American Aviator

How One of America’s Most Influential Black Writers Befriended a Pioneering American Aviator

Gene Andrew Jarrett on the Unexpected Friendship of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Orville Wright

By Gene Andrew Jarrett | June 27, 2022

How Myth, Poetry and Literature Helped Create Early Medieval England

How Myth, Poetry and Literature Helped Create Early Medieval England

Marc Morris on the Origins of the Anglo-Saxons

By Marc Morris | June 27, 2022

How Did the Prim, Religious Christina Rossetti Come to Write Such a Bizarre and Hedonistic Poem?

How Did the Prim, Religious Christina Rossetti Come to Write Such a Bizarre and Hedonistic Poem?

The History of Literature Podcast Looks at the Writer of “Goblin Market”

By History of Literature | June 27, 2022

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