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Once Upon a Time, When America Paid Its Writers

Once Upon a Time, When America Paid Its Writers

Jason Boog on the Struggle to Find Security and Creativity
in the Same Life

By Heather Radke | July 29, 2020

Does 'Character' Still Count in American Politics?

Does 'Character' Still Count in American Politics?

Marjorie Garber on the Etymology and Abuses of a Weighty Word

By Marjorie Garber | July 29, 2020

Letter from San Francisco: When the Shadow is Looming

Letter from San Francisco: When the Shadow is Looming

Oscar Villalon on Desperation and Abandonment

By Oscar Villalon | July 28, 2020

The Vow James Baldwin Made to Young Civil Rights Activists

The Vow James Baldwin Made to Young Civil Rights Activists

Eddie Glaude on How Baldwin Confronted America's Most Exceptional Lie

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr. | July 28, 2020

Homeless in a Pandemic: The Housing Poetry of Jennifer Fitzgerald

Homeless in a Pandemic: The Housing Poetry of Jennifer Fitzgerald

Struggling to Navigate a Broken System

By Alissa Quart | July 28, 2020

Underinvestigated, Trivialized, Excused: On a US System That Treats Rape as Something Less Than a Crime

Underinvestigated, Trivialized, Excused: On a US System That Treats Rape as Something Less Than a Crime

Michelle Bowdler on the Need to Address Rape Culture Head On

By Michelle Bowdler | July 28, 2020

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Books of the Week

Amiri Baraka's Anti-Epic Poem About America's Destruction

By Michael Leong | July 28, 2020

Joe Sacco: Will We One Day Honor the Veterans of the Great Pandemic Wars?

By Joe Sacco | July 27, 2020

Inside the Quest for Documents That Could Resolve a Cold War Mystery

By Nicholson Baker | July 27, 2020

The director of the Philadelphia Free Library resigned over claims of mistreatment of Black staff.

The director of the Philadelphia Free Library resigned over claims of mistreatment of Black staff.

By Corinne Segal | July 24, 2020

Mitch McConnell quoted Salman Rushdie in a confused defense of free speech and the rule of law.

Mitch McConnell quoted Salman Rushdie in a confused defense of free speech and the rule of law.

By Aaron Robertson | July 23, 2020

Letter From Exile: Finding Home <br>in a Pandemic

Letter From Exile: Finding Home
in a Pandemic

Samiya Bashir Returns From Rome to an Uncertain America

By Samiya Bashir | July 23, 2020

It's Past Time for the Bookselling Industry to Reckon with Its Institutional Racism

It's Past Time for the Bookselling Industry to Reckon with Its Institutional Racism

of Bookstore Ownership">Angela Maria Spring on "Both-Siderism" and the Whiteness
of Bookstore Ownership

By Angela Maria Spring | July 23, 2020

The Complicated History of Feminism's Impact on Incarceration

The Complicated History of Feminism's Impact on Incarceration

Aya Gruber on Anti-Prostitution Sentiment and Its Implicit Racism

By Aya Gruber | July 23, 2020

What is Essential? And Who?

What is Essential? And Who?

Siri Hustvedt on What the World Values When It's Falling Apart

By Siri Hustvedt | July 22, 2020

How John Steinbeck's Final Novel Grappled With Immigration and Morality

How John Steinbeck's Final Novel Grappled With Immigration and Morality

When White Privilege Interrogates Itself in Literature

By Tobias Carroll | July 22, 2020

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