• Politics

    American Empire

    Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

    “An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire.”

     
    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 11, 2025
    Pollution

    Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins

    By Ariel Courage  April 10, 2025
    Free Speech

    Dinaw Mengestu on PEN America’s Committment to Freedom of Expression

    By Dinaw Mengestu  April 10, 2025
    Fascism

    Rewatching The Sound of Music in the Age of Tradwives, Trump, and American Fascism

    By Meredith Hambrock  April 9, 2025
    Friendships

    On the 40-Year Friendship of Toni Morrison and Fran Lebowitz

    By Priya Vulchi  April 9, 2025
    The Hub

    21 Attorneys General are suing to save America’s libraries.

    By James Folta  April 8, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Authoritarianism

    The University is the Crisis: On the Price of Columbia’s Soul

    By Shana L. Redmond  April 4, 2025
    News and Culture

    Republicans in Congress Are Going After a Free and Independent Media

    By Aron Solomon  April 3, 2025
    Fascism

    Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism

    By The Professors of Stockton University  April 2, 2025
    The Hub

    The Naval Academy banned over 300 books from its library.

    By James Folta  April 10, 2025
    Radio

    On the Episode That Changed Ira Glass’s This American Life Forever

    By Steve Oney  March 31, 2025
    Cities

    The Paradox of Prosperity: How Urban Renewal Pushes Workers to the Periphery

    By Brian Goldstone  March 31, 2025
    The Hub

    These are the things that are getting us through this week.

    By Brittany Allen  March 28, 2025
    Fascism

    So You Want to Flee to Canada: Revisiting a Classic Guide to Leaving America

    James Folta on the Reissuing of “Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada”

    By James Folta  March 28, 2025
    Retellings

    Poet, Mystic, Warrior, Visionary: Reimagining the Life and Art of an Aztec Ruler Lost in Myth

    By Ilan Stavans  March 27, 2025
    Refugees

    Beyond the Headlines: Capturing the Human Tragedy of the Refugee Crisis

    By Jeanne Carstensen  March 26, 2025
    Cults

    Leah Sottile on Amy Carlson, aka Mother God, and the Creation of a New Age Cult

    By Leah Sottile  March 26, 2025
    The Hub

    Eight print(!) magazines that should be on your radar.

    By Brittany Allen  March 25, 2025
    Writing Trauma

    Why Testimonial and Confessional Writing Remains Necessary in the Post-#MeToo Era

    By Jamie Hood  March 25, 2025
    Feminism

    Towards a New “Bad” Feminist Canon: Why Feminism Remains Essential

    By Roxane Gay  March 25, 2025
    Publishing

    The Reforestation of American Civic Life: What Publishing Can Do in the Face of the Trump

    By Josh Cook  March 21, 2025
    Environmentalism

    A Toxic Business: On America’s Practice of Shipping Its Trash to the Global South

    Alexander Clapp Explores the Dirty History and Lasting Impact of the International Waste Trade

    By Alexander Clapp  March 21, 2025
    Labor

    How Service Workers Can Lead the Fight Against the Ruling Billionaire Class

    By Jodi Dean  March 21, 2025
    MAGA

    Hollow Men: The Republican Party is Nothing More Than a Host for the Malignancies of Donald Trump

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 20, 2025
    New in Nonfiction

    From the Nightmares of the Third Reich to Elon Musk: 10 Nonfiction Books to Read in April

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2025
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