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Why Everyone is Talking About Salome These Days

Why Everyone is Talking About Salome These Days

Leslie Baird on Exploring Enduring Questions of Patriarchy and Feminine Agency Through Fiction

By Leslie Baird | May 20, 2026

Sally Rooney will publish a Hebrew translation of <em>Intermezzo</em> with a BDS-friendly publisher.

Sally Rooney will publish a Hebrew translation of Intermezzo with a BDS-friendly publisher.

By Brittany Allen | May 19, 2026

On Copaganda, Pinkwashing, and the Time I Almost Became an NYPD Cop

On Copaganda, Pinkwashing, and the Time I Almost Became an NYPD Cop

Steven W. Thrasher Examines the Alluring Idea of the “Good Black Cop”

By Steven W. Thrasher | May 19, 2026

On the Run and Underground: When Your Mom’s on the FBI’s Most Wanted List

On the Run and Underground: When Your Mom’s on the FBI’s Most Wanted List

Zayd Ayers Dohrn Remembers a Childhood Spent in Hiding With His Parents

By Zayd Ayers Dohrn | May 19, 2026

Translator Beware: On the Myth of the Finicky English Reader

Translator Beware: On the Myth of the Finicky English Reader

Anton Hur Discusses the Future of Literary Translation

By Anton Hur | May 18, 2026

Writing in Exile: Why Russian Dissident Literature Demands Our Attention

Writing in Exile: Why Russian Dissident Literature Demands Our Attention

Katherine Kelaidis on the Russian Writers Defying Putin's Regime from Abroad

By Katherine Kelaidis | May 18, 2026

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When the Librarians Fought the Archivists Over Who Gets the Declaration of Independence

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Michael Auslin on the Final Battle to Control the Declaration of Independence

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Is It Even Real? On the Conflation of Money and Things

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J.W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev Consider How Money Reflects the Physical World

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What’s with all the nostalgia for Obama-era New York?

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Why the 2000s are dominating books, music, and movies today.

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When a 15-Year-Old Martin Luther King Jr. Confronted Jim Crow on a Train

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Lerone Martin on Segregation Aboard the Southern Railway

By Lerone Martin | May 11, 2026

How the Fanatical Legion of Mary Secreted Young Girls Away to Toil in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

How the Fanatical Legion of Mary Secreted Young Girls Away to Toil in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

Louise Brangan on the Girls Who Disappeared in 20th-Century Ireland

By Louise Brangan | May 8, 2026

On the Aftermath of Conversion Therapy

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Davin Malasarn in Conversation With Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez

By Davin Malasarn | May 7, 2026

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