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Liberating Lit: Iryn Tushabe on Writing Stories of African Black Queer Joy Under Oppression

Liberating Lit: Iryn Tushabe on Writing Stories of African Black Queer Joy Under Oppression

The Author of “Everything Is Fine Here” Recalls a Seminal “This American Life” Episode

By Iryn Tushabe | June 13, 2025

Courting Fatal Passions: How Michael Hardwick Helped Overturn America’s Sodomy Laws

Courting Fatal Passions: How Michael Hardwick Helped Overturn America’s Sodomy Laws

Martin Padgett Recounts a Paradigm-Shifting Legal Case in Georgia

By Martin Padgett | June 12, 2025

Oregon has passed a bill to protect school libraries from book bans.

Oregon has passed a bill to protect school libraries from book bans.

By James Folta | June 11, 2025

Some resources to help out neighbors, immigrants, and protestors in LA.

Some resources to help out neighbors, immigrants, and protestors in LA.

By James Folta | June 10, 2025

Bad Curls, Bad Character: <br>The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

Bad Curls, Bad Character:
The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

Sarah Gold McBride on Race in the United States, Tresses as Culture, and the Field of “Whiskerology”

By Sarah Gold McBride | June 9, 2025

Your week in book news, in Venn diagrams.

Your week in book news, in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | June 6, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Compulsory Silence: On the State-Led Suppression of Language in American Prisons

By Amir Hussain | June 6, 2025

The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses

By Daegan Miller | June 5, 2025

States’ Rights to Racism: The Existential Fight to Enshrine Civil Rights in the Constitution

By Brando Simeo Starkey | June 5, 2025

The Wrong Story: Jeremy Atherton Lin on Writing Love and Politics

The Wrong Story: Jeremy Atherton Lin on Writing Love and Politics

“We conspired to look unflinchingly at the messy parts.”

By Jeremy Atherton Lin | June 5, 2025

How Britain’s 1980s Anti-Gay Laws Impacted a Generation of Young LGBTQ Readers

How Britain’s 1980s Anti-Gay Laws Impacted a Generation of Young LGBTQ Readers

Claire Lynch on the Legacy of Section 28 and the Parallels With Current Book Bans Across the Pond

By Claire Lynch | June 3, 2025

From Charlottesville to the White House: How the “Unite the Right” Rally Altered American Politics

From Charlottesville to the White House: How the “Unite the Right” Rally Altered American Politics

Deborah Baker on Richard Spencer, White Nationalism, and the Challenges of Covering Neo-Nazis

By Deborah Baker | June 3, 2025

Michelle de Kretser: <br>

Michelle de Kretser:
"I ask you—I beg you—to join us in speaking out for Palestine."

From her acceptance speech for the 2025 Stella Prize

By Michelle de Krester | May 30, 2025

The revolutionary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has died.

The revolutionary Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has died.

By Brittany Allen | May 29, 2025

How Curtis Sittenfeld's

How Curtis Sittenfeld's "American Wife" Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

Jessica Stanley on Political Fiction, Conservative Characters, and Curiosity

By Jessica Stanley | May 28, 2025

Hari Kunzru Reflects on Edward Said's <em>Culture and Imperialism</em> Thirty Years After Publication

Hari Kunzru Reflects on Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism Thirty Years After Publication

“For every narrative there are counternarratives, and meaningful interpretations of culture arise out of an analysis of tensions and contradictions”

By Hari Kunzru | May 22, 2025

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