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Catastrophe Awaits: <br>Nagasaki Before the Bomb

Catastrophe Awaits:
Nagasaki Before the Bomb

M.G. Sheftall Chronicles Daily Life in Japan At the End of the Second World War

By M.G. Sheftall | August 7, 2025

A City of Dreams and Dreamers: Ella Berman on Writing About Los Angeles

A City of Dreams and Dreamers: Ella Berman on Writing About Los Angeles

“There is no doubt that if anyone is capable of rebuilding and renewing, it is Los Angeles.”

By Ella Berman | August 7, 2025

Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

Princess Joy L. Perry on Freedom, Servitude, and Writing a Novel Set in the Seventeenth Century

By Princess Joy L. Perry | August 7, 2025

Please welcome the National Association of Black Bookstores.

Please welcome the National Association of Black Bookstores.

By Brittany Allen | August 6, 2025

Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

“I’d steal a moment to write future me into existence, or to write my way through my feelings after another tedious day.”

By Khadijah Queen | August 6, 2025

On the Particular Joys of Etymological Detective Work

On the Particular Joys of Etymological Detective Work

Martha Barnette Explores the Shared Proto-Indo-European Origins of a Diverse Group of Modern Languages

By Martha Barnette | August 6, 2025

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On the Future of Small Presses in the Aftermath of the NEA Grant Chaos

By Elizabeth Kaye Cook | August 6, 2025

The Man in the Vestibule: Chronicle of a Double Homicide in the Rural South

By Joshua Sharpe | August 6, 2025

A Modern Take on a Palestinian Classic, Made With Resourcefulness, Memory and Love

By Sami Tamimi | August 6, 2025

Get ready for too many books by right-wing Justices.

Get ready for too many books by right-wing Justices.

By James Folta | August 5, 2025

One small thing to do today: Pressure mainstream media to cover the Gaza famine.

One small thing to do today: Pressure mainstream media to cover the Gaza famine.

By Brittany Allen | August 5, 2025

God-Tier Books: A Personal Library of Holy Scripture

God-Tier Books: A Personal Library of Holy Scripture

Jon Raymond Recommends Don DeLillo, Denis Johnson, Theodor Adorno and More

By Jon Raymond | August 5, 2025

How Writers Write Characters Who Are Writers Writing About Themselves; Or, But Is It Autofiction?

How Writers Write Characters Who Are Writers Writing About Themselves; Or, But Is It Autofiction?

Megan Cummins Explores the Porous Borders of Narrativizing Oneself on the Open Road

By Megan Cummins | August 5, 2025

Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us

Why a Nineteenth-Century Scandal of Class and Identity Still Speaks to Us

Nell Stevens on the Tichborne Claimant Fraud and Creating the Possibility of a Different World Through Fiction

By Nell Stevens | August 4, 2025

What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

Kathryn Sutherland Explores the Iconic Author’s Life and Work Through the Most Seemingly Mundane Objects

By Kathryn Sutherland | August 4, 2025

A Happy One-Trick Multi-Book Pony: On Writing Novels About Art History

A Happy One-Trick Multi-Book Pony: On Writing Novels About Art History

B.A. Shapiro Follows Her Literary Footsteps Through Storied Museums

By B.A. Shapiro | August 4, 2025

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