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How Did America's Banks Get So Much Political Power?

How Did America's Banks Get So Much Political Power?

A New Book Traces These Origins to NYC's 1970s Financial Crisis

By Isaac Kaplan | June 22, 2017

Why Has No One Ever Heard of the World's First Poet?

Why Has No One Ever Heard of the World's First Poet?

Enheduanna is Revered by Ancient Alien Conspiracy Theorists—But Few Others

By Charles Halton | June 22, 2017

Remembering Prodigy, a Fiercely Independent Artist

Remembering Prodigy, a Fiercely Independent Artist

Ibrahim Ahmad on Collaborating with a Hip-Hop Great

By Ibrahim Ahmad | June 22, 2017

9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)

A Syllabus of Authoritarians Who Thought They Might Be Artists

By Ed Simon | June 21, 2017

Librarians in the 21st Century: We Need to Talk About Library Security

Librarians in the 21st Century: We Need to Talk About Library Security

Katie MacBride on Guns, De-Escalation, and the Need for Funding

By Katie MacBride | June 21, 2017

Measuring the Decline of America's First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

Measuring the Decline of America's First Company Town, One Crack at a Time

Lawrence Lenhart Offers a Very Personal Case Study in Rust Belt Decline

By Lawrence Lenhart | June 20, 2017

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Forrest Trump: On the Donald's Many Cameos in American Literature

By Susan Rieger | June 20, 2017

How Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir Invented Cool

By Joel Dinerstein | June 19, 2017

Nancy Mitford, Inventor of Eccentric English Style

By Terry Newman | June 19, 2017

Daring to Drive (And Write About It) in Saudi Arabia

Daring to Drive (And Write About It) in Saudi Arabia

Speaking with Manal al-Sharif about Defiance and Disclosure

By Sabrina Toppa | June 19, 2017

Two Decades of Reading Beside the Woman I Love

Two Decades of Reading Beside the Woman I Love

They Met at a Bookstore and Have Been Reading Together Ever Since

By Matthew Sullivan | June 16, 2017

After Not Finishing a Book in 35 Years, How My Father Became a Reader

After Not Finishing a Book in 35 Years, How My Father Became a Reader

Mariya Karimjee on a Very Special Book Club of Two

By Mariya Karimjee | June 16, 2017

Running Towards My Father

Running Towards My Father

On Marathons, Perfection, and the Impossibility of Intimacy

By Devin Kelly | June 16, 2017

A Letter to My Father, Long After He's Gone

A Letter to My Father, Long After He's Gone

Gabe Stutman and the Story of a Death in the Family

By Gabe Stutman | June 16, 2017

The Joy and Preemptive Grief of Fatherhood

The Joy and Preemptive Grief of Fatherhood

Quinton Skinner Is Trying to Find the Words

By Quinton Skinner | June 16, 2017

<em>Black Mirror</em> to be a Book, Shakespeare to be a Punk

Black Mirror to be a Book, Shakespeare to be a Punk

The Week in Literary Film & TV News

By Emily Temple | June 16, 2017

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