• Politics

    Billionaires

    A Literary History of the Billionaire: Villain or Buffoon… Or Both?

    “When you're disgustingly wealthy, your days don’t have to be touched by banal oppressors, like the office or public transportation.”

     
    By Brittany Allen  July 10, 2025
    The Hub

    A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity.

    By James Folta  July 9, 2025
    Reality TV

    How I Survived the Toxic Cult of America’s Next Top Model

    By Sarah Hartshorne  July 9, 2025
    Authoritarianism

    What a 1964 Book About American Anti-Intellectualism Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

    By Peter Balakian  July 9, 2025
    The Hub

    Surprisingly, the Supreme Court did a good thing for libraries this term.

    By James Folta  July 8, 2025
    The Hub

    Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets to support.

    By Brittany Allen  July 8, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Prison

    Birth of the Jailhouse Lawyer: How Inmate Counsel Saves Prisoners’ Lives

    By Literary Hub  July 8, 2025
    Violence

    How Much is Too Much? On Bearing Witness to Violence in the Digital Age

    By Will Potter  July 7, 2025
    Activism

    What Are the Revolutionaries Reading? Activists Recommend Essential Texts

    By Suzanne Cope  July 3, 2025
    World War II

    The Tale of Elaine Yoneda, a Jewish Woman in a Japanese American Concentration Camp

    Tracy Slater on the Strange Fate of Mixed-Race Families in Prisons During World War II

    By Tracy Slater  July 10, 2025
    Refugees

    On the Dehumanizing Impact of Deportation and Our Obligations to Each Other

    By Laurie Sheck  July 2, 2025
    Publishing

    A Series of Unfortunate Salaries:
    Maris Kreizman on Fighting the Publishing Industry’s Elitism

    By Maris Kreizman  July 1, 2025
    The Hub

    The Supreme Court just approved anti-LGBT book bans.

    By James Folta  June 27, 2025
    The Hub

    This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  June 27, 2025
    AI

    The Courts Just Made Our Libraries Sitting Ducks For AI Plundering

    By Aron Solomon  June 27, 2025
    AI

    Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers

    By Literary Hub  June 27, 2025
    New York City

    Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander Have Shown Us a Way Forward

    By Steven W. Thrasher  June 26, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

    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
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

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

    By Keridiana Chez  June 26, 2025
    Immigrant Stories

    Uncaring Healthcare: The Impossible Cost of Being Undocumented and Ill in America

    By Alix Dick and Antero Garcia  June 26, 2025
    The Hub

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

    By James Folta  June 24, 2025
    Law

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

    Aron Solomon Looks at American Law Through a Jazz Age Lens 

    By Aron Solomon  June 24, 2025
    Reproductive Rights

    Inside Mexican Feminists’ Fight For Safe and Legal Abortion

    By Rebecca Grant  June 24, 2025
    Politics

    Mahmoud Khalil, Zohran Mamdani, and the Politics of Vulnerability

    By Steven W. Thrasher  June 23, 2025
    Black Arts

    How Houston’s Third Ward Became a Hub of Black Art, Culture, and Opportunity

    By Lauren O'Neill Butler  July 2, 2025
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