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    Music history

    From the Margins to the Mainstream: How the Synthesizer Conquered American Music

    By David Hajdu  February 14, 2025
    Romance

    Enemies to Lovers: On the Romance Genre’s Mainstream Come-Up

    By Angelina Mazza  February 14, 2025
    Illustrations

    From “Ted” to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes Edward Gorey Sent to His Pen Pal

    By Literary Hub  February 14, 2025
    Anti-Blackness

    How Systemic Racism Leads to a Lifetime of Self-Imposed Isolation For Black Americans

    By Chad Sanders  February 14, 2025
    The Hub

    Giada Scodellaro’s debut Ruins, Child has won the 2024 Novel Prize.

    By James Folta  February 13, 2025
    Authoritarianism

    Winter is Here: On the Chilling Effect of Elon Musk and Donald Trump

    By Rob Spillman  February 13, 2025
    Haiti

    Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

    By Rich Benjamin  February 13, 2025
    The Arctic

    Arctic Rush: Inside the 19th-Century Craze to Reach the North Pole

    By Erling Kagge  February 13, 2025
    Language

    What Our First and Last Words Reveal About the Way We Express Ourselves

    By Michael Erard  February 13, 2025
    The Hub

    How Authors Against Book Bans helped defeat attempted library censorship in Florida.

    By James Folta  February 12, 2025
    Gaza

    Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

    By Nicki Kattoura  February 12, 2025
    Patriarchy

    A Fantasy of Domesticity: Why We’re Drawn to the False Promise of the Tradwife

    By Larissa Pham  February 12, 2025
    Literary History

    An American Faerie Queene: The Uncertain Lives of Nathaniel and Una Hawthorne

    By Megan Marshall  February 12, 2025
    The South

    Secrets of the Deep South: In Search of Hidden Family and Collective History in Georgia

    By David Levering Lewis  February 12, 2025
    Inequality

    The Great (Un)Equalizer: How Black and Native Families Struggle to Achieve Social Mobility Through Education

    By Eve L. Ewing  February 12, 2025
    craft advice

    From Community Organizer to Novelist: Alejandro Heredia Finds a Balance Between Art and Activism

    By Alejandro Heredia  February 12, 2025
    The Hub

    Valentine’s Day date ideas for book nerds (and those who love them).

    By James Folta  February 11, 2025
    The Hub

    Late capitalism got you down? Join this (free!) Fredric Jameson study group.

    By Brittany Allen  February 11, 2025
    On Writing

    After the Fall: Hanif Kureishi on Trauma, Recovery and What It Means to Be a Writer

    By Hanif Kureishi  February 11, 2025
    Nationalism

    How the Horrors of the 20th Century Shaped the Ongoing Moral Catastrophe in Gaza

    By Pankaj Mishra  February 11, 2025
    Gaza

    Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide

    By Hanna Phifer  February 11, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Truth and Reconciliation:
    Ten Books That Explore South Africa’s Identity

    By Lauren Francis-Sharma  February 11, 2025
    The Hub

    Gird your loins. We’re about to get a lot of really bad, state-sponsored art.

    By Brittany Allen  February 10, 2025
    The Hub

    Israeli police raided Palestinian-owned bookstores in Jerusalem and arrested the owners.

    By James Folta  February 10, 2025
    The Hub

    What to read if you’re finally ready to loud quit your job.

    By Brittany Allen  February 10, 2025
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