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Whose Death Gets to Count, and For What?

Whose Death Gets to Count, and For What?

On Racism, Gun Violence, and the Failures of the Official Narrative

By Gary Younge | October 19, 2016

The Radical Bookseller: We're Talking About the Wrong Pussy

The Radical Bookseller: We're Talking About the Wrong Pussy

Why Donald Trump Really Needs to Meet Pussy Riot

By Lucy Kogler | October 19, 2016

The Banality of Donald Trump

The Banality of Donald Trump

On Hannah Arendt's Birthday, Examining her Relevance to our Political Moment

By Rafia Zakaria | October 14, 2016

It Breaks Before it Bends: On Donika Kelly's Black Girl Poetry

It Breaks Before it Bends: On Donika Kelly's Black Girl Poetry

Nikky Finney in Praise of a Psalm of Pure Resolve

By Nikky Finney | October 13, 2016

From Orwell to Trump: When Does Egoism Become Narcissism?

From Orwell to Trump: When Does Egoism Become Narcissism?

On the Universal Trickiness of Crafting a Persona in Writing and Otherwise

By Catherine Buni | October 13, 2016

The Man Who Lived the Tragic Tale of My Book

The Man Who Lived the Tragic Tale of My Book

Surviving the Armenian Genocide, 100 Years Later, in Vermont

By Dawn MacKeen | October 12, 2016

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Lina Mounzer on the Urgency of Telling the Stories of Conflict

By Lina Mounzer | October 6, 2016

The First Post-Brexit Novel: Mohsin Hamid's <em>Exit West</em>

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A First Look at the Book's Cover, and a Conversation with John Freeman

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My Journey to Activism and Black Lives Matter

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Why Every American Should Read <em>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</em>

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Is Joyce Carol Oates Trolling Us?

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On <em>Love Jones</em> and Searching for Black Desire Onscreen

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"Most of the images of teen romance I saw were of white kids"

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A Jarring Choice at the National Museum of African-American History

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