• Politics

    Book Dreams

    Justin Fenton on the Relationship Between Politics and Policing

    By Book Dreams  September 1, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Nobel Prize-Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah on German Conquest in East Africa and His Latest Novel, Afterlives

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 1, 2022
    Racism

    How American Conservatives Embraced Intellectual Justifications of Racism

    By Nicole Hemmer  August 31, 2022
    News and Culture

    What is the Future of Film in Gaza?

    By Mosab Abu Toha  August 31, 2022
    Keen On

    Rebelling Against Conventional Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Modi’s India

    By Keen On  August 31, 2022
    The Hub

    They’re shooting books now: censorship-loving, book-banning vigilantes stoop to a new low.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 30, 2022
    Ukraine

    Closed Libraries and Fading Light: On Life in Kyiv, August 2022

    By Myroslav Laiuk  August 30, 2022
    Democracy

    The “Democratization” of Everything: On Conflating Democracy and the Market

    By Jedediah Purdy  August 30, 2022
    Keen On

    Dahlia Lithwick on the Destructive Power of the Supreme Court

    By Keen On  August 30, 2022
    Crime

    From Nabokov to Erdrich: Reading Complex Portraits of Criminality

    By Rebecca Bernard  August 29, 2022
    Keen On

    The Republicans Have Become the Destructionist Party and It Might Destroy American Democracy

    By Keen On  August 29, 2022
    Keen On

    Dead Planet or Livable Future: What Story Will We Tell of Ourselves?

    By Andrew Keen  August 26, 2022
    The Hub

    The book-banning lawsuit against Barnes & Noble is moving forward in Virginia.

    By Corinne Segal  August 25, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Phong Nguyen on Vietnam Then, Taiwan Today, and China’s Interests Abroad

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 25, 2022
    Capitalism

    How Big Pharma and Big Tech Collude To Exploit Basic Human Needs

    By Adrienne Buller and Mathew Lawrence  August 25, 2022
    The Hub

    A Texas woman went to the cops about an actual library book.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 24, 2022
    Cities

    How Technology Can Both Improve and Degrade Our Urban Environment

    By John Lorinc  August 24, 2022
    Black Activism

    Aja Monet on Robin D.G. Kelley and the Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation

    By Aja Monet  August 24, 2022
    Keen On

    The Stolen Year: Kids, Covid, and the Catastrophic Cost of the Pandemic

    By Keen On  August 24, 2022
    Horror

    The Gothic Horror of a Post-Roe America

    By Gwendolyn Kiste  August 24, 2022
    Keen On

    Can a Critic of “Wokeness” Really Be Genuinely Liberal or Progressive?

    By Keen On  August 24, 2022
    Keen On

    Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the US Census

    By Keen On  August 24, 2022
    American History

    What Langston Hughes Understood About How Power Relations Shaped US Census Data

    By Dan Bouk  August 23, 2022
    Queer Community

    A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses

    By Rasheed Newson  August 23, 2022
    QAnon

    Mike Rothschild on the Ongoing Influence of QAnon and Its Self-Made Mythologies

    By Mike Rothschild  August 22, 2022
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