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Weaponizing a Word: On Falsely Equating Criticism of Israel With Antisemitism

Weaponizing a Word: On Falsely Equating Criticism of Israel With Antisemitism

Daniel José Older: “Genocide is the single most important and urgent threat to free speech on this planet.”

By Daniel José Older | June 11, 2024

What Jane Austen’s Work Can Tell Us About the British Imperial Project

What Jane Austen’s Work Can Tell Us About the British Imperial Project

Corinne Fowler Considers the Colonial Legacy of the English Countryside

By Corinne Fowler | June 11, 2024

A Fundamental Boundary: What the Mississippi River Means to America

A Fundamental Boundary: What the Mississippi River Means to America

Boyce Upholt on the Meaning and Use of Rivers and Other Waterways

By Boyce Upholt | June 11, 2024

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

Low Poetics: On Cubism, Disability, and the Distance Between the Reader and the Poem

D.S. Waldman Considers the Work of John Ashbery, Ben Lerner, and Georges Braque

By D.S. Waldman | June 11, 2024

A Woman’s Place is in the Ring: On Gender, Performativity and the Unreal

A Woman’s Place is in the Ring: On Gender, Performativity and the Unreal

Rufi Thorpe Considers Wrestling As a Way of Revealing the Inner Self

By Rufi Thorpe | June 11, 2024

Attention: Soon you'll be able to do a writing residency in Ursula Le Guin’s home.

Attention: Soon you'll be able to do a writing residency in Ursula Le Guin’s home.

By James Folta | June 10, 2024

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Not Like Other Dykes: On Femininity, Basketball, and the Caitlin Clark Effect

By Mac Crane | June 10, 2024

Here are the winners of the 2023 Nebula Awards.

By Drew Broussard | June 10, 2024

In Praise of the Paranormal Curiosity of Charles Fort, Patron Saint of Cranks

In Praise of the Paranormal Curiosity of Charles Fort, Patron Saint of Cranks

Ed Simon on the Porous, Ever-Shifting Boundaries Between Science and Speculation

By Ed Simon | June 10, 2024

Local Outsiders: On Growing Up Black in Appalachia

Local Outsiders: On Growing Up Black in Appalachia

Katrina M. Powell Explores the Long History of Migration and Displacement in a Majority White Region

By Katrina M. Powell | June 10, 2024

Britain’s Forgotten Pandemic: What We Failed to Learn from the Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease

Britain’s Forgotten Pandemic: What We Failed to Learn from the Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease

Scott Preston on How Botched Policy Responses Disease Led to Political Extremism

By Scott Preston | June 10, 2024

Looking For Elaine May: On Tracking Down an Elusive Comedy Legend

Looking For Elaine May: On Tracking Down an Elusive Comedy Legend

Carrie Courogen Considers Balancing the Demands of Biography With a Fan’s Enthusiasm

By Carrie Courogen | June 10, 2024

Queen Christina, Lesbian Icon? On Sweden’s Delightfully Nonconformist Monarch

Queen Christina, Lesbian Icon? On Sweden’s Delightfully Nonconformist Monarch

Eleanor Medhurst Considers the Aesthetic and Practice of Queerness in 17th-Century Europe

By Eleanor Medhurst | June 7, 2024

How Eva Le Gallienne Revolutionized Early 20th-Century Theater

How Eva Le Gallienne Revolutionized Early 20th-Century Theater

Barrie Kreinik on Reviving a Queer Icon of the Roaring Twenties

By Barrie Kreinik | June 7, 2024

John Kaag on the Bloods, the Little-Known Dynasty that Shaped American Life and Philosophy

John Kaag on the Bloods, the Little-Known Dynasty that Shaped American Life and Philosophy

The Author of “American Bloods” in Conversation with James Hibbard

By James Hibbard | June 7, 2024

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