Will Hot Shakespeare be the new Hot Priest?

Will Hot Shakespeare be the new Hot Priest?

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How Ai Weiwei Marries Advocacy and Art at Home and Abroad

How Ai Weiwei Marries Advocacy and Art at Home and Abroad

From His Graphic Memoir, "Zodiac"

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A Brief History of the Grand Old American Tradition of Banning Books

A Brief History of the Grand Old American Tradition of Banning Books

Laura Pappano Investigates the “Chaotic and Illogical Business” of Censorship

By Laura Pappano | January 30, 2024

Wesley Morris on the Disappearing Middle

Wesley Morris on the Disappearing Middle

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | January 30, 2024

What Fiction Can Reveal About the Fragile Fabric of Our Societies

What Fiction Can Reveal About the Fragile Fabric of Our Societies

Aminatta Forna on Over Two Decades of Literary Excavation of Sierra Leone’s Civil War

By Aminatta Forna | January 29, 2024

On Book Hoarding and the Perilous Paradox of Clutter

On Book Hoarding and the Perilous Paradox of Clutter

Vanessa Ogle Remembers Growing Up Among... Stuff

By Vanessa Ogle | January 29, 2024

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Indie comics powerhouse Fantagraphics has denounced the genocide in Gaza.

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So Fetch, So Fierce: In Praise of All the Literary Mean Girls

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More (And More) Meat: How Doctors Treated Diabetes Before Insulin Therapy

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Gary Taubes on the History of Diet-Based Remedies For Chronic Illness

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Here are the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award finalists.

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The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

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Adam Shatz on the Life and Legacy of a Great Post-Colonialism Thinker

By Adam Shatz | January 25, 2024

How America’s First Cinematic Black Vampire Subverted Stereotypes

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Odie Henderson on the Making of “Blacula” and the Broader History of Blaxploitation Cinema

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Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

József Debreczeni Recounts a Terrifying Train Ride from Hungary to Auschwitz with His Fellow Prisoners

By József Debreczeni | January 25, 2024

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