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The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex

The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex

Chill Subs’ Benjamin Davis Looks into the Economics of Submission Fees

By Benjamin Davis | May 7, 2025

Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

Philip Hoare on Paul Nash, W. Graham Robertson, “De Profundis,” and More

By Philip Hoare | May 7, 2025

It’s the Most Important Muscle in Your Body and You Don’t Even Know What It’s Called

It’s the Most Important Muscle in Your Body and You Don’t Even Know What It’s Called

Henry Abbott on the Essential Anatomical Role Played By the Enigmatic Psoas

By Henry Abbott | May 7, 2025

Ornament, Etiquette, Identity, Food: A Personal History of the Orange

Ornament, Etiquette, Identity, Food: A Personal History of the Orange

Katie Goh Ponders Citrus in Art and Life

By Katie Goh | May 7, 2025

An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine

An Immodest Proposal: How Britain’s Relentless Imperialism Created the Irish Potato Famine

Padraic X. Scanlan on Jonathan Swift, Colonization, and Dispossession

By Padraic X. Scanlan | May 7, 2025

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

Asking Toni’s Questions: Decentering Whiteness in Literary Spaces

“It is the discomfort of asking and of making space for the answers...that will allow us to stay in the room together.”

By Rosa Castellano | May 7, 2025

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What the Voyage of a Single Container Ship Reveals About the World Economy

What the Voyage of a Single Container Ship Reveals About the World Economy

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By Ian Kumekawa | May 6, 2025

I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

Kevin Nguyen on Why We Don’t Need Books to Tell Us About Our Current Political Moment

By Kevin Nguyen | May 6, 2025

When Love Means Letting Go: Jiordan Castle on Navigating a Tumultuous Relationship With Her Father

When Love Means Letting Go: Jiordan Castle on Navigating a Tumultuous Relationship With Her Father

“I had a choice: to keep my dad and lose my way or preserve us like a handprint in cement.”

By Jiordan Castle | May 6, 2025

How New York City’s Radical Social Movements Gave Rise to Hip-Hop

How New York City’s Radical Social Movements Gave Rise to Hip-Hop

Dean Van Nguyen on the Revolutionary History Behind One of America’s Main Musical Exports

By Dean Van Nguyen | May 6, 2025

A New Life or a Different Death? How Immigration Splits the Self

A New Life or a Different Death? How Immigration Splits the Self

Jill Damatac on the Timeless Paradox of Leaving Home For a Foreign Land

By Jill Damatac | May 6, 2025

Here are the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners.

Here are the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners.

By Brittany Allen | May 5, 2025

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