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The Supreme Court just approved anti-LGBT book bans.

The Supreme Court just approved anti-LGBT book bans.

By James Folta | June 27, 2025

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | June 27, 2025

The Courts Just Made Our Libraries Sitting Ducks For AI Plundering

The Courts Just Made Our Libraries Sitting Ducks For AI Plundering

Aron Solomon on the Uses and Abuses of “Fair Use”

By Aron Solomon | June 27, 2025

Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers

Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers

“We want our publishers to stand with us. To make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines.”

By Literary Hub | June 27, 2025

Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander Have Shown Us a Way Forward

Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander Have Shown Us a Way Forward

Steven W. Thrasher on What a Healthy Progressive Coalition Looks Like

By Steven W. Thrasher | June 26, 2025

What Would Happen If the Chatbots Broke Free of Their Masters?

What Would Happen If the Chatbots Broke Free of Their Masters?

Paul Bradley Carr on the Danger—For Tech Bros—of Empathetic, Knowledgable Artificial Intelligence

By Paul Bradley Carr | June 26, 2025

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The Magical Mundane: Work, Technology and Consumerism in the World of Harry Potter

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This is how over 40% of NYC bookstores became unionized.

By James Folta | June 24, 2025

Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

By Aron Solomon | June 24, 2025

Inside Mexican Feminists’ Fight For Safe and Legal Abortion

Inside Mexican Feminists’ Fight For Safe and Legal Abortion

Rebecca Grant on the Battle for Reproductive Freedom in Latin America and Throughout the World

By Rebecca Grant | June 24, 2025

Mahmoud Khalil, Zohran Mamdani, and the Politics of Vulnerability

Mahmoud Khalil, Zohran Mamdani, and the Politics of Vulnerability

Steven W. Thrasher on Two Men Who Are Showing Us a Better Way

By Steven W. Thrasher | June 23, 2025

The Dark Magic of Words: Why Fascism and Illiberalism Are So Seductive to Writers

The Dark Magic of Words: Why Fascism and Illiberalism Are So Seductive to Writers

Ed Simon Looks at Eduard Limonov, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Yukio Mishima, and Others

By Ed Simon | June 23, 2025

How <em>Sex and the City</em> Exemplifies Late 20th-Century Feminist Despair

How Sex and the City Exemplifies Late 20th-Century Feminist Despair

Alice Bolin on the Possibilities and Pitfalls of Gender Relations Amidst Women’s Ongoing Struggle For Sexual Autonomy

By Alice Bolin | June 23, 2025

On Egypt’s Unjust Incarceration of the Writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, and the Hunger Strike of Dr. Laila Soueif

On Egypt’s Unjust Incarceration of the Writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, and the Hunger Strike of Dr. Laila Soueif

Margaret Busby on a Mother’s Hunger Strike for Her Imprisoned Son

By Margaret Busby | June 20, 2025

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

By James Folta | June 20, 2025

Here's what's making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here's what's making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | June 20, 2025

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