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How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World

How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World

Imaobong Umoren on the Violent History of the Colonized Caribbean

By Imaobong Umoren | October 23, 2025

What the Fascist Tech Bros Get Wrong About Prometheus

What the Fascist Tech Bros Get Wrong About Prometheus

James Folta on the Dark Folly of the
American Colossus Foundation

By James Folta | October 22, 2025

Return to <em>Jesus Land</em>: Exposing the Institutionalized Cruelty of the “Troubled Teen Industry”

Return to Jesus Land: Exposing the Institutionalized Cruelty of the “Troubled Teen Industry”

Deirdre Sugiuchi on the Adaptation of a
Groundbreaking “Exvangelical” Memoir

By Deirdre Sugiuchi | October 22, 2025

Cursed Mountains and Deathly Lakes: When Nature Is Explained By Myth

Cursed Mountains and Deathly Lakes: When Nature Is Explained By Myth

Adrienne Mayor Explores the Folklore and Legends Behind Natural Phenomena From Across the World

By Adrienne Mayor | October 22, 2025

On the Simple Life of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Philosophy as “Neverending Therapy”

On the Simple Life of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Philosophy as “Neverending Therapy”

Anthony Gottlieb Considers Wittgenstein’s Famous Family and His Revolutionary Approach to Philosophical Questions

By Anthony Gottlieb | October 22, 2025

Sewing as a Way to Shape the Future—and Survive the Present

Sewing as a Way to Shape the Future—and Survive the Present

Maddie Ballard on Using Sewing as
a Way to Look Forward

By Maddie Ballard | October 22, 2025

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By Anna Fiteni | October 22, 2025

When Tracker Tilmouth and the Warlpiri People of Central Australia “Invaded” Europe

By Alexis Wright | October 22, 2025

From Martinique to New York: On the Trailblazing Career of Paulette Nardal

By Keisha N. Blain | October 22, 2025

Vajra Chandrasekera has won the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

Vajra Chandrasekera has won the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

By Literary Hub | October 21, 2025

A federal judge just dismissed an Ohio teacher’s fight against book bans.

A federal judge just dismissed an Ohio teacher’s fight against book bans.

Karen Cahall was suspended for keeping four LGBTQ+ books in her classroom library.

By Brittany Allen | October 21, 2025

Dear Tech Evangelists: Have You Tried “Move Slow and Make Things”?

Dear Tech Evangelists: Have You Tried “Move Slow and Make Things”?

Tochi Onyebuchi on the Dangers of Rapid Tech Innovation

By Tochi Onyebuchi | October 21, 2025

Dear Bill: Letters From a Young John Updike to His Editor, William Maxwell

Dear Bill: Letters From a Young John Updike to His Editor, William Maxwell

“Elizabeth keeps falling down the steep stairs here. Send the checks. I need the money.”

By James Schiff | October 21, 2025

“Yet Famine Was Still Famine.” On the Struggle to Find Food and Clean Water in Gaza

“Yet Famine Was Still Famine.” On the Struggle to Find Food and Clean Water in Gaza

Noor Alyacoubi Recounts Starvation and Survival in Palestine

By Noor Alyacoubi | October 21, 2025

Five Classic Books Every Basketball Lover Should Read

Five Classic Books Every Basketball Lover Should Read

Yaron Weitzman Recommends David Halberstam, Jeff Pearlman, Jack McCallum, and More

By Yaron Weitzman | October 21, 2025

How Oscar Wilde finally got his library card back.

How Oscar Wilde finally got his library card back.

130 years after the British Library revoked his card-carrying privileges, Wilde's grandson got his.

By Brittany Allen | October 20, 2025

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