Reading Houellebecq in the Midst of the French Elections

Reading Houellebecq in the Midst of the French Elections

How Art Can Hasten a Macabre Moral Shift and Legitimate Prejudice

By Rafia Zakaria | May 5, 2017

How Inequality Shortens Lifespans

How Inequality Shortens Lifespans

Poverty is a Matter of Life and Death

By Keith Payne | May 5, 2017

Bangladesh, a Case Study in What Actual Censorship Looks Like

Bangladesh, a Case Study in What Actual Censorship Looks Like

Life Sentences for Questioning the History of a War

By Sadaf Saaz | May 5, 2017

How the Federal Government Saved Literature in Tennessee

How the Federal Government Saved Literature in Tennessee

On the Vital Importance of the NEH and the NEA

By Margaret Renkl | May 4, 2017

State Censorship: How the Library of Congress Came to Define Obscenity

State Censorship: How the Library of Congress Came to Define Obscenity

On the Virtually Unknown History of the Delta Collection

By Melissa Adler | May 4, 2017

Maaza Mengiste, Carrie Brownstein, and Jill Filipovic on Gender and Power

Maaza Mengiste, Carrie Brownstein, and Jill Filipovic on Gender and Power

"History is malleable, it reshapes itself so easily, too easily"

By Literary Hub | May 3, 2017

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In the End, Everyone Will Have a Mugshot: On the Birth of the Police

By Bill Lavender | May 3, 2017

Muslim-American Kids Need to See More of Themselves in Pop Culture

By Hena Khan | May 3, 2017

Another Man's Liberator: Hopeless Votes for Trump in West Virginia

By Joe Halstead | May 2, 2017

Dear New York Times: Climate Denial Has No Place in the Paper of Record

Dear New York Times: Climate Denial Has No Place in the Paper of Record

An Open Letter from Writers to the Grey Lady

By Literary Hub | May 1, 2017

Dictator at the Podium: The First 100 Days Takes Me Back 25 Years

Dictator at the Podium: The First 100 Days Takes Me Back 25 Years

Danuta Hinc on Leaving a Regime She Tried to Forget

By Danuta Hinc | April 28, 2017

Calling a Lie a Lie: On the First 100 Days of Donald Trump's Presidency

Calling a Lie a Lie: On the First 100 Days of Donald Trump's Presidency

From the PEN America Report on Free Expression

By Literary Hub | April 28, 2017

Ancient Astronaut Aryans: On the Far Right Obsession with Indo-Europeans

Ancient Astronaut Aryans: On the Far Right Obsession with Indo-Europeans

The Bizarre Pseudo-Historical Belief System Behind White Nationalism

By Ramon Glazov | April 28, 2017

Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance

Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance

Timothy Snyder Take Us From Nazism in Austria to the Milgram Experiment

By Timothy Snyder | April 28, 2017

Eleanor Roosevelt:

Eleanor Roosevelt: "Can a Woman Ever Be President of the United States?"

Jill Lepore on One of the Greatest First Ladies of All Time

By Jill Lepore | April 27, 2017

Telling Stories of Police Brutality, One Panel at a Time

Telling Stories of Police Brutality, One Panel at a Time

For Dan Méndez Moore, Labor Justice is Racial Justice

By Christine Ro | April 20, 2017

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