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Loving White Boys While Black: On Beauty, Desire and Learning Self-Love

Loving White Boys While Black: On Beauty, Desire and Learning Self-Love

Lester Fabian Brathwaite Considers the Literary and Cultural Socialization of Young Black Queer Men

By Lester Fabian Brathwaite | September 11, 2024

Writing Between Worlds: Navigating My African and American Identities on the Page

Writing Between Worlds: Navigating My African and American Identities on the Page

Itoro Bassey on the Gift of Being Understood

By Itoro Bassey | September 6, 2024

Toward a More Generous Pedagogy

Toward a More Generous Pedagogy

Michele Herman on Bringing the Golden Rule to Her Classroom

By Michele Herman | September 5, 2024

Korean Revolutionary Kim San on Moral Courage in the Face of Imperialist Violence

Korean Revolutionary Kim San on Moral Courage in the Face of Imperialist Violence

“To rise above oppression is the glory of man; to submit is his shame.”

By Kim San | September 5, 2024

Don’t Look Back: Diary of a Life in Gaza

Don’t Look Back: Diary of a Life in Gaza

Nahil Mohana on the Toll of Living with Endless Displacement and Fear

By Nahil Mohana | September 4, 2024

Nothing’s Ever Lost: Can AI Help Us Remember Our Departed Loved Ones?

Nothing’s Ever Lost: Can AI Help Us Remember Our Departed Loved Ones?

Bryan VanDyke on Grief, Chatbots and the Power of Human Memory

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Intifada: On Being an Arabic Literature Professor in a Time of Genocide

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Escaping Genocide: <br>Diary of a Life in Gaza

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Nahil Mohana on Staying Alive During Israel’s Attacks on Palestine

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The spiciest takeaways from Tina Brown’s <em> Vanity Fair Diaries. </em>

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Love in the Time of Hillbilly Elegy: On JD Vance’s Appalachian Grift

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Justin Wymer Knows a Snake When He Sees One

By Justin Wymer | August 27, 2024

Rejecting Denial and Embracing Sorrow: On Writing the Story of a Husband’s Suicide

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Alexandra Marshall Explores the Tension Between the Diverging Demands of Fiction and Memoir

By Alexandra Marshall | August 27, 2024

On the Dark History and Ongoing Ableist Legacy of the IQ Test

On the Dark History and Ongoing Ableist Legacy of the IQ Test

Pepper Stetler Explores How Research Helps Us Understand the Past to Create a Better Future

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A Kind of Arctic Madness: On Christiane Ritter’s Essential Memoir of the Far North

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Colin Dickey Goes All the Way to Svalbard to Read “A Woman in the Polar Night”

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Rosie Schaap on Losing Her Husband: “He Wanted to Go on Reading Because He Wanted to Go on Living.”

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