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    What the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting means for Viewers Like You.

     
    By Brittany Allen  August 7, 2025
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    On the Future of Small Presses in the Aftermath of the NEA Grant Chaos

    By Elizabeth Kaye Cook  August 6, 2025
    The Hub

    Get ready for too many books by right-wing Justices.

    By James Folta  August 5, 2025
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    One small thing to do today: Pressure mainstream media to cover the Gaza famine.

    By Brittany Allen  August 5, 2025
    The Hub

    Israel’s most famous novelist says his country is committing genocide.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 1, 2025
    Memoir

    On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way)

    By Meg Pillow  July 31, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
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    Why you should read Howard Zinn’s Artists in Times of War now.

    By James Folta  July 30, 2025
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    “If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.” On the Privileges of Misery

    By Philip Metres  July 30, 2025
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    An Open Letter to the Portland Book Festival

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2025
    Slavery

    Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

    Princess Joy L. Perry on Freedom, Servitude, and Writing a Novel Set in the Seventeenth Century

    By Princess Joy L. Perry  August 7, 2025
    Identity

    Una Cultura en Juego: Identity, Erasure and Language in America Today

    By Natalie Guerrero  July 28, 2025
    On Poetry

    Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry

    By Literary Hub  July 28, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  July 25, 2025
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    This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  July 25, 2025
    Migration

    Expat, Economic Migrant or Refugee? And Why These Labels Shouldn’t Matter

    By Alex Poppe  July 25, 2025
    The Hub

    Israel is starving Gaza. Here’s how you can help keep people alive.

    By Dan Sheehan  July 24, 2025
    Singer Songwriters

    Neko Case on Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters as Much Today as She Ever Did

    By Neko Case  July 24, 2025
    Indigenous Peoples

    How Canadian Laws and Institutions Sought to Erase Indigenous Peoples and Cultures

    Tanya Talaga Explores the Intersections of a Family Mystery and the Ongoing Legacy of Genocide Against Canada’s First Nations

    By Tanya Talaga  July 24, 2025
    Palestine

    On Gaza, Assia Wevill, and Finding “Permission to Narrate” in a Time of Genocide

    By Emily Van Duyne  July 24, 2025
    Technology

    Truth Optional: How Digital Platforms Replaced the Press and Democracy Took the Hit

    By Aron Solomon  July 23, 2025
    Bookstores

    A Refuge From Censorship: Why Independent Bookstores Will Save Us

    By Kate Broad  July 23, 2025
    Jewish Identity

    On the Decades-Long Erasure of Jewish Working-Class Anti-Zionism

    Benjamin Balthaser on Mike Gold, Alexander Bittelman, and the Paradoxes of Left-Wing Zionism

    By Benjamin Balthaser  July 23, 2025
    The Hub

    Apparently, comparing someone’s writing to AI is now a “classist slur;” and other news.

    By James Folta  July 22, 2025
    The Hub

    A book stall in central Gaza is keeping literature alive amidst genocide.

    By James Folta  July 22, 2025
    The Hub

    “Where is my antisemitism money?”: A Columbia professor’s letter to the university president.

    By James Schamus  July 28, 2025
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