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    A Suburban Mindset Has Taken Over Life in America

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    The History of Latin America is Not a Monolithic Story

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    On Race

    The Satire That Takes on Punk, Richmond, and the Trope of the Magical Black Friend

    By Chris L. Terry and Mensah Demary  August 26, 2020
    Historical Fiction

    The Wife of “Italy’s George Washington” Was a Radical in Her Own Right

    By Diana Giovinazzo  August 26, 2020
    Thresholds

    Rachel Eliza Griffiths on Turning Her Work Towards Herself

    By Thresholds   August 26, 2020
    Keen On

    How the Present Moment is Like the Dying Days of the Soviet Union

    By Keen On  August 26, 2020
    New Books Network

    In an Era of Gender Equality, What Does It Mean to Be a “Tomboy?”

    By New Books Network  August 26, 2020
    The Hub

    Writers Against Trump wants to mobilize the literary community in advance of the election.

    By Corinne Segal  August 25, 2020
    The Hub

    Happy pub day to the first mainstream children’s book featuring a Sikh character.

    By Corinne Segal  August 25, 2020
    The Hub

    Do we really need another book about Henry David Thoreau?

    By Jonny Diamond  August 25, 2020
    Craft

    I have more than 600 postcards from a guy who made them into a literary genre.

    By Aaron Robertson  August 25, 2020
    Nature Writing

    Helen Macdonald: The Things I Tell Myself When I’m Writing About Nature

    By Helen Macdonald  August 25, 2020
    Conspiracy theories

    How Do Celebrity Conspiracy Theorists Become Who They Are?

    By Tea Krulos  August 25, 2020
    On Racism

    Rev. William J. Barber II on the Scourge of Environmental Racism

    By Reverend William J. Barber II  August 25, 2020
    Corporate America

    How Corporate Money Has Distorted American Science

    By Clifford D. Conner  August 25, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    On John Berger and Rediscovering Drawing During Lockdown

    By David Farrier  August 25, 2020
    Letters Home

    ‘Sense’ a Poem by Dawn Lundy Martin

    By Dawn Lundy Martin  August 25, 2020
    Conservatism

    How Ronald Reagan’s Time at General Electric Pushed Him to Conservatism

    By Daniel Lucks  August 25, 2020
    AI

    On the Difficulty of Finding a Distinct Human Voice for
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    By Ros Anderson  August 25, 2020
    Organized Crime

    Why Are People So Drawn to the Legend of Chapo Guzmán?

    By Alan Feuer  August 25, 2020
    Keen On

    A Brief History of American Presidents Lying

    By Keen On  August 25, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    On the Challenges Facing Women Who Work in Antarctica

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   August 25, 2020
    Memoir

    Are We Comfortable Encountering Strangers Anymore?

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    The Hub

    Vanity Fair’s new masthead includes Jesmyn Ward, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Kiese Laymon.

    By Aaron Robertson  August 24, 2020
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