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Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities

Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities

“The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.”

By Judith Butler | February 20, 2025

WG Sebald’s <em>Rings of Saturn</em> Might Be the Perfect Climate Change Novel

WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn Might Be the Perfect Climate Change Novel

Madeleine Watts’s on the Prescient Genius of a Hard-to-Categorize Novel

By Madeleine Watts | February 20, 2025

What to Read Before and After Seeing <em>Art Spiegelman: Disaster is my Muse</em>

What to Read Before and After Seeing Art Spiegelman: Disaster is my Muse

Readings on the Life, Works, and Legacy of Art Spiegelman

By Olivia Rutigliano | February 20, 2025

How Democracy Supporters Can Still Beat Back the Rising Tide of Fascism

How Democracy Supporters Can Still Beat Back the Rising Tide of Fascism

Katherine Stewart on the Internal Contradictions of the Current American Antidemocratic Movement

By Katherine Stewart | February 20, 2025

How the Twin Desires of Connection and Autonomy Motivate Us to Success

How the Twin Desires of Connection and Autonomy Motivate Us to Success

William von Hippel on the Psychology Behind the Human Need for Independence and Acceptance

By William von Hippel | February 20, 2025

Finding Comfort in TV That No One Else Is Talking About

Finding Comfort in TV That No One Else Is Talking About

Anandi Mishra on the Joys of Escaping into the (Recent) Past

By Anandi Mishra | February 20, 2025

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RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

By Brittany Allen | February 19, 2025

If Trump can’t kill you, he wants to hurt you.

By James Folta | February 19, 2025

Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

By James Folta | February 19, 2025

Edward Gorey's

Edward Gorey's "Great Simple Theory About Art" is essential reading for writers.

By Emily Temple | February 19, 2025

In Purging Language About Trans People, Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Trying to Purge the People Themselves

In Purging Language About Trans People, Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Trying to Purge the People Themselves

Gabrielle Bellot on the Radical Power of Words As Weapons

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 19, 2025

Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

Rebecca Romney on Unearthing a Legacy of Systematic Literary Erasure

By Rebecca Romney | February 19, 2025

How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of <em>War and Peace</em> Helped Me Write a Novel

How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of War and Peace Helped Me Write a Novel

Elyse Durham on Sergei Bondarchuk’s Seven-Hour Cinematic Classic

By Elyse Durham | February 19, 2025

Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like <em>Elden Ring</em>

Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like Elden Ring

Nick Newman Considers the Act of Writing as a Form of (Game) Play

By Nick Newman | February 19, 2025

How the Pilgrims Redefined What It Means to Move Across the World

How the Pilgrims Redefined What It Means to Move Across the World

Yoni Appelbaum Explores the Puritan Origins of Modern Ideas About Migration

By Yoni Appelbaum | February 19, 2025

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

The Author of “Counterculture” in Conversation with Aaron Robertson

By Aaron Robertson | February 19, 2025

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