Why We Have Police: Race, Class, and Labor Control

Why We Have Police: Race, Class, and Labor Control

Philip V. McHarris Traces a Line Through American Chattel Slavery, Reconstruction, Civil Rights, and the “War on Drugs”

By Philip V. McHarris | August 4, 2021

World of Wonders: Why Nature Writing Makes for Essential Reading

World of Wonders: Why Nature Writing Makes for Essential Reading

This Week from the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | August 4, 2021

Tesla vs. GM: On the Early Years of the Electric Car Wars

Tesla vs. GM: On the Early Years of the Electric Car Wars

Tim Higgins Looks Back at Detroit’s Reaction to Elon Musk’s Upstart

By Tim Higgins | August 4, 2021

On Lebanon’s Water Crisis and the Long Fallout of the Civil War

On Lebanon’s Water Crisis and the Long Fallout of the Civil War

Charif Majdalani Traces a History of Corrupt Politicians, Deregulation, and Climate Catastrophe

By Charif Majdalani | August 4, 2021

Michael Knox Beran on the Rise and Fall of WASP Culture

Michael Knox Beran on the Rise and Fall of WASP Culture

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 4, 2021

“I Am the Last Nomad.” What It Means to Be the Sole Keeper of a Family’s Stories

“I Am the Last Nomad.” What It Means to Be the Sole Keeper of a Family’s Stories

Shugri Said Salh on the Transition from Her Nomadic Somali Childhood to Parenthood in California

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Here’s why Terry Pratchett’s daughter and Neil Gaiman are fighting with transphobes on Twitter.

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Awkwafina is your host for the 2021 PEN America Literary Gala.

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We’re getting a new Nell Zink novel featuring bikers, princes, and money laundering.

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Read the short story that just won the £10,000 Caine Prize for African Writing.

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The National Book Foundation’s newest initiative will celebrate books about science and technology.

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My Life Story, Someone Else’s Voice: Why I Won’t Be Narrating My Memoir’s Audiobook

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James Tate Hill on the Way We Listen to Contemporary Memoir

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