Why a 1980s Novel of Dystopian Patriarchy Still Speaks to Women Today

Why a 1980s Novel of Dystopian Patriarchy Still Speaks to Women Today

Leni Zumas on a New Edition of Suzette Haden Elgin's The Judas Rose

By Leni Zumas | July 15, 2019

How America Came Heartbreakingly Close to Universal Healthcare

How America Came Heartbreakingly Close to Universal Healthcare

Despite Funding Successful Socialized Medicine Abroad, the United States Opted for Profit

By Mike Magee | July 12, 2019

Why Report on Desire? Saskia Vogel on Reading Lisa Taddeo

Why Report on Desire? Saskia Vogel on Reading Lisa Taddeo

“We’re all capable of throwing everything away in a moment, if the desire is strong enough.”

By Saskia Vogel | July 12, 2019

Small Acts: Finding Friendship with My Online Spanish Teacher

Small Acts: Finding Friendship with My Online Spanish Teacher

Courtney Maum on the Way Worlds Open Up Through Language

By Courtney Maum | July 12, 2019

Elliot Ackerman and Anuradha Bhagwati on the Role of the Military in American Politics

Elliot Ackerman and Anuradha Bhagwati on the Role of the Military in American Politics

With Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 11, 2019

The War on the Poor is Only Getting Worse

The War on the Poor is Only Getting Worse

Peter Edelman on the One War America Seems to Be Winning

By Peter Edelman | July 11, 2019

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Anthony McCann on the Constitutional Confusion of the So-Called American Patriot Movement

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The Problem of Neoliberal Realism in Contemporary Fiction

The Problem of Neoliberal Realism in Contemporary Fiction

Madeline ffitch on the Politics of "Conflict" in the Stories We Tell

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How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

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Randy Boyagoda on Religious-Political Satire

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The American Ballpark: Public Space or Private Playground?

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Whitney Terrell on Class, Race, Baseball, and a New Book by Paul Goldberger

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When the World Matches the Apocalypse in Your Novel

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Kimi Eisele on Finding Light in the Darkness of a Financial Dystopia

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Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Being a Patriotic Black Southerner

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