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Introduction to Activism: <br>A Reading List

Introduction to Activism:
A Reading List

Moms Demand Action's Founder Shannon Watts Shares the Books that Taught Her to Organize

By Shannon Watts | June 27, 2019

Debate Prep: what the critics wrote about every Democratic presidential candidate's memoir

Debate Prep: what the critics wrote about every Democratic presidential candidate's memoir

By Dan Sheehan | June 26, 2019

I Read One Hundred Books<br> Just to Write One

I Read One Hundred Books
Just to Write One

Heather O'Neill on the Compulsive Joy of Endless Research

By Heather O'Neill | June 26, 2019

Confronting My Well Educated, Father-of-Six, White Supremacist Troll

Confronting My Well Educated, Father-of-Six, White Supremacist Troll

Some Trolls Are More Dangerous Than Others

By Ginger Gorman | June 26, 2019

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand<br> Her Father

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand
Her Father

On the Poetry of a Precocious Nine-Year-Old

By Jacquelyn Ardam | June 26, 2019

The Rocket Scientist Who Had to Elude the FBI Before He Could Escape Earth

The Rocket Scientist Who Had to Elude the FBI Before He Could Escape Earth

Frank Malina's Scientific Dreams Were as Radical as His Politics

By Fraser MacDonald | June 26, 2019

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The Memoir I Never Wanted
to Write

By Chavisa Woods | June 26, 2019

Remembering Merce Cunningham and Radical Dance in Postwar Paris

By Marianne Preger-Simon | June 26, 2019

The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

By Jack Parlett | June 25, 2019

How Many Copies Did Famous Books Sell in the First Year?

How Many Copies Did Famous Books Sell in the First Year?

From Two to... Two Million

By Emily Temple | June 25, 2019

On Being a Woman Who Loves Math

On Being a Woman Who Loves Math

Catherine Chung Finds Inspiration in the Lives of Otherwise Forgotten Mathematicians

By Catherine Chung | June 25, 2019

Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal's Long Career

Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal's Long Career

From the Introduction to The Journal I Did Not Keep

By Catherine Lacey | June 25, 2019

Meet the Bay Area Butterflies Fighting For Survival

Meet the Bay Area Butterflies Fighting For Survival

But Can They Outlast Development and Drought?

By Nick Haddad | June 25, 2019

Massoud Hayoun on What It Means to Identify as Both Jewish and Arab

Massoud Hayoun on What It Means to Identify as Both Jewish and Arab

Untangling the Imperfect Narratives of Religious History

By Massoud Hayoun | June 25, 2019

The Many Ways We Create the 'Other'

The Many Ways We Create the 'Other'

Louise Aronson on the Contemporary Othering of the Elderly

By Louise Aronson | June 25, 2019

Eimear McBride sold a new novel and it sounds amazing.

Eimear McBride sold a new novel and it sounds amazing.

By Emily Temple | June 24, 2019

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