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    Philosophy

    How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic, Or: When Did Agamben Become Alex Jones?

    By Benjamin Bratton  August 2, 2021
    Road Trips

    Reinventing the Transformative Vision of America in Nabokov’s Cross-Country Chronicles

    By Thomas Dai  August 2, 2021
    Remembrances

    In Memory of My Parents, the Late Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha

    By Rodrigo Garcia  August 2, 2021
    Influences

    In Praise of Racist Books: Notes of an Immigrant Reader

    By Louis Chude-Sokei  August 2, 2021
    On Race

    Blackness on the Margins: What Ann M. Martin Asked of Jessi in The Baby-Sitters Club

    By Chanté Griffin  August 2, 2021
    Emergence Magazine

    Paradise Extended: Searching for My Great-Grandfather’s Grave in a Segregated Cemetery

    By Emergence Magazine  August 2, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Life and Works of Jack Kerouac, “King of the Beats”

    By History of Literature  August 2, 2021
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of July.

    By Book Marks  July 30, 2021
    The Hub

    The newest self-publishing platform for writers? OnlyFans.

    By Walker Caplan  July 30, 2021
    The Hub

    The first bestselling paperback original in the US was a work of lesbian pulp fiction.

    By Katie Yee  July 30, 2021
    The Hub

    “The book is an abortion”: In which Herman Melville eviscerates a book about yachting.

    By Jessie Gaynor  July 30, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    Is New York City Doing Enough to Prepare for the Next Catastrophic Flood?

    By Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros  July 30, 2021
    The Moon

    Exploring the Moon: Revisiting Apollo 15’s Lunar Landing, 50 Years Later

    By Andrew Chaikin  July 30, 2021
    Keen On

    Jonathan Rapping on How to End Mass Incarceration in America

    By Keen On  July 30, 2021
    Speculative fiction

    New Fiction From PEN America’s DREAMing Out Loud: “Stateless: 2053”

    By Juan David Gastolomendo  July 30, 2021
    Language

    The Syntax of Belonging: On the Profound Connection Between Identity and Language

    By Pardis Mahdavi  July 30, 2021
    Open Source

    Stones for Goliath: On Biden’s Fight Against Digital Monopolists

    By Open Source  July 30, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Laura van den Berg on the Possibilities of Setting

    By Laura van den Berg  July 30, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview With an Indie Press: Black Ocean

    By Corinne Segal  July 30, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Kathie Klarreich: How Working with Incarcerated People Has Changed My Life

    By The Literary Life  July 30, 2021
    The Hub

    This is not a drill: we’re getting a new Zora Neale Hurston essay collection in 2022.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  July 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Maggie Shipstead’s Great Circle is coming to TV.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 29, 2021
    The Hub

    “Brother, you’ve got a fan now!” Read a letter from Nina Simone to Langston Hughes.

    By Walker Caplan  July 29, 2021
    The Hub

    The only known recording of J.D. Salinger’s voice will be cremated with the woman who stole it.

    By Walker Caplan  July 29, 2021
    The Hub

    New Yorker Union members have unanimously voted to ratify their first contract.

    By Walker Caplan  July 29, 2021
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