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Mary Gaitskill's Classic Essay on John McCain

Mary Gaitskill's Classic Essay on John McCain

From the 2008 Presidential Campaign

By Mary Gaitskill | July 28, 2017

We Want Our Refugees and Exiles to Be Victims

We Want Our Refugees and Exiles to Be Victims

"I am Now Obliged to Tell a Story, But Only the One Particular Story"

By Ece Temelkuran | July 27, 2017

Telling Their Own Stories: On Black Women's Leadership Memoirs

Telling Their Own Stories: On Black Women's Leadership Memoirs

"This is the Story of a Colored Woman Living in a White World"

By Brittney C. Cooper | July 24, 2017

Where Does Palestine Begin?

Where Does Palestine Begin?

"When a house gets demolished in East Jerusalem, does it stop being Palestine?"

By Yasmin El-Rifae | July 21, 2017

Decolonial Theory Should Not Be Safely Contained Within the Classroom

Decolonial Theory Should Not Be Safely Contained Within the Classroom

Why Poetics and Academic Practice Are Insufficient

By Evelyn Araluen | July 21, 2017

The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Gentrification

The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Gentrification

Brandon Harris on a Decade of Magical Thinking in Bed-Stuy

By Brandon Harris | July 20, 2017

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Baldwin vs. Buckley: A Debate We Shouldn't Need, As Important As Ever

By Gabrielle Bellot | July 20, 2017

Disposable People, Dying to Build a City in the Desert

By Beenish Ahmed | July 20, 2017

Jane Austen, Political Symbol of Early Feminism

By Devoney Looser | July 18, 2017

Looking at the Other in the Midst of War

Looking at the Other in the Midst of War

Sarah Sentilles on Empathy, Art, and Abu Ghraib

By Sarah Sentilles | July 17, 2017

Thoreau on Trump, Twitter, and Fake News

Thoreau on Trump, Twitter, and Fake News

The Ongoing and Depressing Relevance of a 200-Year-Old Thinker

By Emily Temple | July 12, 2017

Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

“The law will never make men free; it is men who make the law free.”

By Howard Zinn | July 12, 2017

When Are You Going To Write About Black People?

When Are You Going To Write About Black People?

On the Responsibility of Writers, White and Black, to Write the Other

By Brian Platzer | July 11, 2017

Judith Butler on the Poetry of Guantanamo

Judith Butler on the Poetry of Guantanamo

"In Some Ways, Literature and the Arts Help to Make the World Bearable"

By Sam O'Hana | July 7, 2017

The American Artist Who's Been Drawing Interwar Berlin for 23 Years

The American Artist Who's Been Drawing Interwar Berlin for 23 Years

Comics Creator Jason Lutes on a Project That's Spanned Half his Life

By Daniel A. Gross | July 7, 2017

Have Journalists Forgotten to Think Like Readers?

Have Journalists Forgotten to Think Like Readers?

A Modest Proposal to Save the Media: Tell It To Me Like a Six-Year-Old

By Caren Lissner | July 6, 2017

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