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    A Report from the First-Ever Smithsonian Asian American Literature Festival

    By Kyle Lucia Wu  July 31, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Trump’s Shameful, Cruel Ban on People Like Me

    By Gabrielle Bellot  July 28, 2017
    Feature

    OJ Simpson is One-Man Book Industry

    By Dwyer Murphy  July 28, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Writing Let Me Take Control of My Own Story

    By Jennie Melamed  July 28, 2017
    Politics

    Is It Still Possible to Satirize America?

    By Sean Gandert  July 28, 2017
    Film

    Tolkien and Salinger: Basically Twins

    By Emily Temple  July 28, 2017
    Archives

    Mary Gaitskill’s Classic Essay on John McCain

    By Mary Gaitskill  July 28, 2017
    Excerpts

    Svetlana Alexievich on Why She Does What She Does

    By Svetlana Alexievich  July 27, 2017
    Politics

    We Want Our Refugees and Exiles to Be Victims

    By Ece Temelkuran  July 27, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How the Witchcraft of Clarice Lispector Saved My Life

    By Veronica Esposito  July 25, 2017
    History

    The Worst White House Kitchen in History

    By Laura Shapiro  July 25, 2017
    Poets

    How Patti Smith Brought Rock ‘n’ Roll to New York Poetry

    By Daniel Kane  July 24, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Mothers Who Leave Their Children

    By Melissa Chadburn  July 24, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Invention of the Rural Hipster

    By John T. Edge  July 24, 2017
    Excerpts

    Telling Their Own Stories: On Black Women’s Leadership Memoirs

    By Brittney C. Cooper  July 24, 2017
    What to Read

    9 Classic Country Songs and the Books They Pair With

    By Sarah Creech  July 21, 2017
    News

    Agatha Christie Is Taking Over All Your Screens

    By Emily Temple  July 21, 2017
    Excerpts

    Where Does Palestine Begin?

    By Yasmin El-Rifae  July 21, 2017
    Design

    The History of the Bendable, Durable, Chewable Board Book

    By Olivia Campbell  July 21, 2017
    Essay

    Decolonial Theory Should Not Be Safely Contained Within the Classroom

    By Evelyn Araluen  July 21, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Gentrification

    By Brandon Harris  July 20, 2017
    History

    Baldwin vs. Buckley: A Debate We Shouldn’t Need, As Important As Ever

    By Gabrielle Bellot  July 20, 2017
    Personal Essay

    A First-Hand Account of Severe Autism

    By Naoki Higashida  July 20, 2017
    Memoir

    Andy Warhol’s Superstars and the Invention of Downtown New York

    By Victor P. Corona  July 20, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Disposable People, Dying to Build a City in the Desert

    By Beenish Ahmed  July 20, 2017
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