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How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

Lee Gutkind on the Early Origins of a Very American Kind of Writing

By Lee Gutkind | January 23, 2024

Manjula Martin on Chronicling a World in Constant Turmoil

Manjula Martin on Chronicling a World in Constant Turmoil

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Last Fire Season”

By Jane Ciabattari | January 23, 2024

White America Facing Its Ghosts: The Slow Unraveling of a Nation’s Suburbs

White America Facing Its Ghosts: The Slow Unraveling of a Nation’s Suburbs

Benjamin Herold on White Flight, Demographic Shifts, and Coming to Terms With the Racist Policies That Created a Crisis

By Benjamin Herold | January 23, 2024

Thousands of KidLit professionals are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Thousands of KidLit professionals are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

By Dan Sheehan | January 22, 2024

How Witches Shifted from Daily Healers to Heretics and Dangerous Women Under Christian Rule

How Witches Shifted from Daily Healers to Heretics and Dangerous Women Under Christian Rule

Marion Gibson on Why Public Perceptions of Witchcraft Changed in the 15th Century

By Marion Gibson | January 22, 2024

Unlocking Reason: How the Deaf Created Their Own System of Communication

Unlocking Reason: How the Deaf Created Their Own System of Communication

Moshe Kasher Explores Deaf History, Language and Education as the Hearing Child of a Deaf Adult

By Moshe Kasher | January 22, 2024

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Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee on Remembering Earth

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Why Are We Here? On the Philosophical Possibilities of “Cosmic Purpose”

Why Are We Here? On the Philosophical Possibilities of “Cosmic Purpose”

Philip Pullman, Philip Goff, and Nigel Warburton Ponder the Big Questions of Our Existence

By Philip Pullman, Philip Goff and Nigel Warburton | January 19, 2024

Nick Romeo on the Profound—and Scary—Influence of Economic Ideas

Nick Romeo on the Profound—and Scary—Influence of Economic Ideas

“It’s hard to imagine a group of businessmen aggressively lobbying against the physics curriculum at MIT.”

By Nick Romeo | January 19, 2024

Why is March 2024 the Best Month in Years For Books?

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By Maris Kreizman | January 18, 2024

Why We Should All Read <br>Hannah Arendt Now

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Lyndsey Stonebridge on “The Origins of Totalitarianism” and the Failure of Democracy

By Lyndsey Stonebridge | January 18, 2024

The Splintering of the Self: Annie Liontas on Life After Concussion

The Splintering of the Self: Annie Liontas on Life After Concussion

“I tell myself that the brain injury did not take away a self, rather it revealed many other selves heretofore unknown to me.”

By Annie Liontas | January 18, 2024

Lightning and Land Ablaze: The Primal Terror of Living in Wildfire Country

Lightning and Land Ablaze: The Primal Terror of Living in Wildfire Country

Manjula Martin Recounts a Day of Apocalyptic Storms in Northern California

By Manjula Martin | January 18, 2024

Susan Muaddi Darraj on Finding Inspiration in the Lives of Ordinary Palestinians

Susan Muaddi Darraj on Finding Inspiration in the Lives of Ordinary Palestinians

“I take my cue from them—these are my people, and their humble resilience will continue to inspire me.”

By Susan Muaddi Darraj | January 18, 2024

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